The End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Knibbs, Eric (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Boon, Jessica A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gelser, Erica (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Literature, Medieval.; Comparative literature.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Medieval Literature.; Comparative Literature.; History of Medieval Europe.

This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on "Gendering the Apocalypse,"...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction, Jessica A. Boon and Eric Knibbs
• 2. The Sobered Sibyl: Gender, Apocalypse and Hair in Dio Chrysostom's Discourse 1 and the Shepherd of Hermas, Mary R. D'Angelo
• 3. The Marian Apocalyptic of a Visionary Preacher: The Conorte of Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534, Jessica A. Boon
• 4. The City Coming Down Out of Heaven (Rev. 21:10): Bologna as Jerusalem, Gabriella Zarri
• 5. Risen to Judgment: What Augustine Saw, Francine Cardman
• 6. Berengaudus on the Apocalypse, Eric Knibbs
• 7. Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Joachim of Fiore's Expositio in Apocalypsim, Bernard McGinn
• 8. Juan de Horozco y Covarrubias's Tratado dela verdadera y falsa prophecia (1588) and the Influence of Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions in Post-Tridentine Spain, James F. Melvin
• 9. The End of the World as They Knew it? Jews, Christians, Samaritans and Endtime Speculation in the Fifth-Century, Ross S. Kraemer
• 10. End Time at Hand: Innocent III, Joachim of Fiore, and the Fourth Crusade, Marcia L. Colish
• 11. The End of a Single World: The Sacrament of Extreme Unction in Scholastic Thought, Lesley Smith
• 12. Amorous and Religious "Apocalypses" in John Donne's Metaphysical Imagination, Angela Locatelli. .