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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The essays in this collection were presented at the 2020 Symposium on Apocalypticism, sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee. The authors offer new readings of medieval and Renaissance Apocalypticism in quotidian terms, not as 'counterculture' but as the pragmatic expression of spiritualities that informed both debate and practice, on subjects as mundane and diverse as warfare, pilgrimage, gender, cartography, environmentalism, and governance. Topics include the origins of imperial eschatology; reflections on cosmology and the fate of the earth; the fusion of history, prophecy, and genealogy; Joachite readings of the political landscape of Italy; the influence of the Great Schism on Burgundian art; eschatology and gender in pilgrimage literature; the late medieval interpretation of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius; and the appropriation of apocalyptic tropes in the propaganda and policies of the German emperor Maximilian I. The essays that open and close this collection offer meditations on the enduring legacy of Apocalypticism by focusing on the events - pandemic, political unrest, and the proliferation of conspiracy theories manifest in both - that mark the historical era in which this symposium took place. Offers new readings of medieval and Renaissance Apocalypticism as the expression of spiritualities that informed both debate and practice, covering subjects as diverse as warfare, pilgrimage, gender, cartography, environmentalism, and governance. From papers presented at the 2020 Symposium, 'Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Cultures i Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The essays in this collection were presented at the 2020 Symposium on Apocalypticism, sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee. The authors offer new readings of medieval and Renaissance Apocalypticism in quotidian terms, not as 'counterculture' but as the pragmatic expression of spiritualities that informed both debate and practice, on subjects as mundane and diverse as warfare, pilgrimage, gender, cartography, environmentalism, and governance. Topics include the origins of imperial eschatology; reflections on cosmology and the fate of the earth; the fusion of history, prophecy, and genealogy; Joachite readings of the political landscape of Italy; the influence of the Great Schism on Burgundian art; eschatology and gender in pilgrimage literature; the late medieval interpretation of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius; and the appropriation of apocalyptic tropes in the propaganda and policies of the German emperor Maximilian I. The essays that open and close this collection offer meditations on the enduring legacy of Apocalypticism by focusing on the events - pandemic, political unrest, and the proliferation of conspiracy theories manifest in both - that mark the historical era in which this symposium took place. Offers new readings of medieval and Renaissance Apocalypticism as the expression of spiritualities that informed both debate and practice, covering subjects as diverse as warfare, pilgrimage, gender, cartography, environmentalism, and governance. From papers presented at the 2020 Symposium, 'Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Cultures i Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback, 301 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:13 b/w, 25 col., 5 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503606699. Summary The essays in this collection were presented at the 2020 Symposium on Apocalypticism, sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee. The authors offer new readings of medieval and Renaissance Apocalypticism in quotidian terms, not as 'counterculture' but as the pragmatic expression of spiritualities that informed both debate and practice, on subjects as mundane and diverse as warfare, pilgrimage, gender, cartography, environmentalism, and governance. Topics include the origins of imperial eschatology; reflections on cosmology and the fate of the earth; the fusion of history, prophecy, and genealogy; Joachite readings of the political landscape of Italy; the influence of the Great Schism on Burgundian art; eschatology and gender in pilgrimage literature; the late medieval interpretation of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius; and the appropriation of apocalyptic tropes in the propaganda and policies of the German emperor Maximilian I. The essays that open and close this collection offer meditations on the enduring legacy of Apocalypticism by focusing on the events ? pandemic, political unrest, and the proliferation of conspiracy theories manifest in both ? that mark the historical era in which this symposium took place. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Apocalypse and Politics, in the Middle Ages and Today JAY RUBENSTEIN Constantine and the Birth of Medieval Apocalypticism: Imperial Eschatology in Eusebius, Lactantius, Ephrem, Aphrahat, and the Tiburtine Sybil STEPHEN SHOEMAKER The Apocalypse and the Medieval Cosmos BRETT EDWARD WHALEN Apocalypse Unfurled: Origins and End Times in the Genealogical Roll JENNIFER JAHNER Prophetic Geography: Italy, the School of Joachim of Fiore, and the New Philistines THOMAS MAURER The Apocalypse of the Duc de Berry and the Apocalyptic Great Schism RICHARD K. EMMERSON The Eschatology of Pilgrimage Literature and the Gender of the Apocalypse in Late Medieval Europe KATHRYNE BEEBE Reading the End in Late Medieval Augsburg: Wolfgang Aytinger's Commentary on the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius LAURA ACKERMAN SMOLLER Prophecy and Policy: Maximilian I as Last World Emperor in Theory and Practice ROBERT BAST The Apocalyptic 'Other': Nostos, Gog and Magog, and Revelation in the Time of Covid COLIN MCALLISTER Index 0 g.…