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The many crises of the high and late Middle Ages in Europe saw a resurgence of interest in apocalypticism and millenarianism. Pious Christians who feared the coming judgement day but found the established Church lacking in an adequate response, sought out leadership and direction from thinkers who appealed to their lived experience. In this volume, we examine how this eschatology was interpreted, expressed, and disseminated in popular culture by a variety of lay religious movements and individuals such as the Order of Apostles, Bianchi, Guglielmites, Wycliffites, and Hussites among others. The authors here focus on how this creative response to apocalypticism reflected the changing social and political culture of medieval Europeans and is intended to illuminate the active exchange of popular and elite religious culture in the era.
Contributors include: Sally M. Brasher, Steven A. Hackbarth, Eleanor Janega, Stephen Lahey, Richard Landes, Alexandra R.A. Lee, Lucie Mazalová, Jerry B. Pierce, and Sergio Sancho Fibla.
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Introduction
Sally M. Brasher
1 The Apocalyptic Year Thousand: Demotic Religiosity and the Birth of Europe
Richard Landes
2 From Acceptance to Annihilation: Poverty, Apocalypticism, and the Appeal of the Order of Apostles
Jerry B. Pierce
3 A Partial Apocalypse? Eschatology and the Bianchi Devotions of 1399
Alexandra R.A. Lee
4 The Feminine Divine: Millenarian Interpretation by the Guglielmites
Sally M. Brasher
5 Apocalypticism in the Age of Wyclif
Steven A. Hackbarth
6 Antichrist in Prague
Eleanor Janega
7 Apocalypticism in Bohemia after 1400: Violence and the Eschaton
Stephen Lahey and Lucie Mazalová
8 Listening to John, Rewriting the Book: a Liturgical Reading of Constança de Rabasten's Revelations
Sergi Sancho Fibla
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