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Visions of the end: apocalyptic traditions in the Middle Ages

McGinn, Bernard, 1937-

Year: c1979.

Publisher: Columbia University Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

Introduction

Part One: A.D 400‒1200

Introduction

1. The Tiburtine Sibyl

2. Antichrist in the Fifth Century

3. The Legend of Alexander

4. Pseudo‐Ephraem

5. Gregory the Great

6. Byzantine Apocalyptic

7. Pseudo‐Methodius

8. Beatus of Liébana

9. Muspilli

10. Adso's Letter on the Antichrist

11. Apocalyptic and Non‐Apocalyptic Themes of the Eleventh Century

12. Apocalypticism and the Great Reform

13. Gerhoh of Reichersberg

14. The Ages of the Church

15. Imperial Apocalyptic

16. The Erythraean Sibyl

17. Joachim of Fiore

Part Two A.D. 1200‒1500

Introduction

18. Moslems, Mongols, and the Last Days

19. The Joachite Movement before 1260

20. Frederick II vs. the Papacy

21. Merlin, the British Seer

22. The Angelic Pope

23. Bonaventure's Apocalyptic Theology of History

24. The Franciscan Spirituals

25. Arnald of Villanova

26. Fra Dolcino and the Apostolic Brethren

27. John of Rupescissa

28. The Fraticelli

29. Rome and Avignon during the Captivity

30. Political Prophecies: French versus German Imperial Legends

31. Apocalypticism, the Great Schism, and the Conciliar Movement

32. The Hussite Movement

33. Germany on the Eve of the Reformation

34. Savonarola and Late Medieval Italian Apocalypticism

35. Christopher Columbus

Notes

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

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Title:

Visions of the end : apocalyptic traditions in the Middle Ages / Bernard McGinn.

Author:

McGinn, Bernard, 1937-

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Visions of the end : apocalyptic traditions in the Middle Ages / Bernard McGinn.
McGinn, Bernard, 1937-
New York: Columbia University Press, c1979.

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Subject Headings:

• End of the world -- History of doctrines
• Millennialism -- History of doctrines
• Apocalyptic literature
• Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500

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