Waiting for the End of the World: European Dimensions, 950-1200
Intro -- Contents -- Preface: How the Idea for This Book Came About -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 European Dimensions of the Anticipation of the End of Times: Texts. Contexts. Real Places and Symbolic Topoi -- 1.1 Expectations for the End of Times in the Jewish Mi...
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Boston
BRILL
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 Ser.
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Byzantine Empire
/ Principality
/ End times expectations
/ History 950-1200
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface: How the Idea for This Book Came About -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 European Dimensions of the Anticipation of the End of Times: Texts. Contexts. Real Places and Symbolic Topoi -- 1.1 Expectations for the End of Times in the Jewish Milieu, 10th-12th Centuries -- 1.2 Expectations for the End of Times in Western Europe -- 1.2.1 Calming of Fears in the 10th-11th Centuries: Adso of Montier-en-Der, Thietland, Raoul Glaber -- 1.2.2 The Peace of God Movement and the Year 1000 -- 1.2.3 The Year 1000 and the Victory of the Cross in the North and the Center of Europe -- 1.2.4 On the Threshold between the 10th and 11th Centuries. The Ottonians: Symbolic Acts and Symbolic Topoi -- 1.2.5 A Look at the Cult of St. Michael the Archangel from the Holy Roman Empire -- 1.2.6 The Twelfth Century in the West: New Trajectories and Loci/Topoi of the 'Salvational' Expectations -- 1.2.6.1 Millenarian Explorations during the 12th Century: the Interpretations and the Promise of Joachim of Fiore -- 1.2.6.2 The West Looks to the Far East, or on the Kingdom of Prester John before the Earthly Paradise -- 1.3 Expectations for the End of Times in Byzantium -- 1.3.1 The 'Scythian' Threat from the North before 1092 -- 1.3.1.1 Signs, Horoscopes and the Attacks of the Rus' -- 1.3.1.2 The Pechenegs and the Other Steppe Nomads -- 1.3.2 The Norman Threat from the West before and after 1092 -- 1.3.3 Symbolic Acts in Constantinople before 1200 -- 1.3.4 Testimonies of the End in Byzantine Art -- 1.4 Expectations for the End of Times in Kievan Rus' -- 1.4.1 The Rus': the New 'Chosen People' of God -- 1.4.2 The Capital City of Kiev (Late 10th-12th Centuries): Imitating Jerusalem and Constantinople -- 1.4.3 And All of Rus' Is under God's Protection. |
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| ISBN: | 9004409939 |