The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23791577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jesse T Palmer (0000-0002-1933-0670, University of St Andrews, corresponding author), James Palmer (0000-0002-1151-1485) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781316084144 |
| OpenAlex | W409300143 |
| ISBN | 9781316084144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
This groundbreaking study reveals the distinctive impact of apocalyptic ideas about time, evil and power on church and society in the Latin West, c.400–c.1050. Drawing on evidence from late antiquity, the Frankish kingdoms, Anglo-Saxon England, Spain and Byzantium and sociological models, James Palmer shows that apocalyptic thought was a more powerful part of mainstream political ideologies and religious reform than many historians believe. Moving beyond the standard 'Terrors of the Year 1000', The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages opens up broader perspectives on heresy, the Antichrist and Last World Emperor legends, chronography, and the relationship between eschatology and apocalypticism. In the process, it offers reassessments of the worlds of Augustine, Gregory of Tours, Bede, Charlemagne and the Ottonians, providing a wide-ranging and up-to-date survey of medieval apocalyptic thought. This is the first full-length English-language treatment of a fundamental and controversial part of medieval religion and society.
Ancient history · Apocalypticism · Archaeology · Art · Emperor · Eschatology · Heresy · Ideology · Kingdom · Late Antiquity · Literature · Mainstream · Middle Ages · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
Early Latin Commentaries on the Apocalypse
The sun was darkened for seventeen days« (AD 797). An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Celestial Phenomena between Byzantium, Charlemagne, and a Volcanic Eruption
The New Environmental Fall of Rome
Red lights in the sky, hunger in sight. Aurora borealis and famine between experience and rhetoric in the early Middle Ages
Collapse of a Eurasian Hybrid
The Stateless Nomads of Central Eurasia
The Languages of Christianity on the Silk Roads and the Transmission of Mediterranean Culture into Central Asia
Sasanian Iran and Its Northeastern Frontier
Sasanian Iran and the Projection of Power in Late Antique Eurasia
Tests of Faith, Rebirth out of Corruption, or Endless Cycles of Regeneration
Central Asia in the Late Roman Mental Map, Second to Sixth Centuries
Trade and Exchanges along the Silk and Steppe Routes in Late Antique Eurasia
Followers and Leaders in Northeastern Eurasia, ca. Seventh to Tenth Centuries
Patterns of Roman Diplomacy with Iran and the Steppe Peoples
The Relations between China and the Steppe
“Charismatic” Goods
Ethnicity and Empire in the Western Eurasian Steppes
Aspects of Elite Representation among the Sixth- and Seventh-Century Türks
The Circulation of Astrological Lore and Its Political Use Between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, India, and the Türks
Byzantium’s Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Türk Empire
Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road
How the Steppes Became Byzantine
Infrastructures of Legitimacy in Inner Asia
Epilogue
Apocalypse and Atonement in the Politics of Æthelredian England
Restless skies at the turn of the first Millennium AD. Climate fluctuations, astronomic phenomena and socio-political turbulences in 10th and 11th century Byzantium and Japan in comparative perspective
Moving the North
A Castle Hanging by a Thread
The ‘Terrors of the Year 1900’
Apocalyptic Legacies
The Otherness of Non-Christians in the Early Middle Ages
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity
Remembering St Brictius
Historiography at the Crossroads
Apocalyptic and Eschatological Thought in England Around the Year 1000
Mirrors for Bureaucrats
The Scribes of the Silos Apocalypse (London, British Library, Add. MS 11695) and the Scriptorium of Silos in the Late Eleventh Century
The Elon Musk experience
| Citations per year | 3.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |