Apocalyptic Literature – A Never-Ending Story

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface and Acknowledgements XI
4. Notes on Contributors, volume 1 XIII
5. Notes on Contributors, volume 2 XIX
6. Cultures of Eschatology, volume 1. Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
7. Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Cultures of Eschatology 1
8. Literary and Visual Traditions
9. Making Ends Meet: Western Eschatologies, or the Future of a Society (9th–12th Centuries). Addition of Individual Projects, or Collective Construction of a Radiant Dawn? 25
10. Apocalyptic Literature – A Never-Ending Story 45
11. “When the Sun is Shrouded in Darkness and the Stars are Dimmed” (Qurʾan 81:1–2). Imagery, Rhetoric and Doctrinal Instruction in Muslim Apocalyptic Literature 66
12. Volatile Images: The Empty Throne and its Place in the Byzantine Last Judgment Iconography 84
13. Appendix 106
14. On some Buddhist Uses of the kaliyuga 123
15. Scriptural Traditions and their Reinterpretations
16. Choices – The Use of Textual Authorities in the Revelation of John 165
17. Manichaean Eschatology: Gnostic-Christian Thinking about Last Things 181
18. The Third Latin Recension of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius – Introduction and Edition 194
19. Appendix: Cinzia Grifoni, cur., Pseudo-Methodius’ Revelationes in the so-called Third Latin Recension 233
20. Eschatological Relativity. On the Scriptural Undermining of Apocalypses in Jewish Second Temple, Late Antique and Medieval Receptions of the Book of Watchers 254
21. Empires and Last Days 1
22. Eschatologies of the Sword, Compared: Latin Christianity, Islam(s), and Japanese Buddhism 277
23. The Portents of the Hour: Eschatology and Empire in the Early Islamic Tradition 294
24. The History of Ibn Ḥabīb: al-Andalus in the Last Days 319
25. Apocalyptic Insiders? Identity and Heresy in Early Medieval Iberia and Francia 337
26. Apocalyptic Cosmologies and End Time Actors
27. Treasure Texts on the Age of Decline: Prophecies Concerning the Hidden Land of Yolmo, their Reception and Impact 359
28. Gog and Magog Crossing Borders: Biblical, Christian and Islamic Imaginings 390
29. Zaydī Theology Popularised: A Hailstorm Hitting the Heterodox 415
30. Political Propheticism. John of Rupescissa’s Figure of the End Times Emperor and its Evolution 441
31. Cultures of Eschatology, volume 2. Time, Death and Afterlife in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
32. Death and Last Judgment
33. Death and Eschatological Beliefs in the Lives of the Prophets according to Islam 467
34. Scattered Bones and Miracles – The Cult of Saints, the Resurrection of the Body and Eschatological Thought in the Works of Gregory of Tours 479
35. Arguing for Improvement: The Last Judgment, Time and the Future in Dhuoda’s Liber manualis 509
36. Death and Pollution as a Common Matrix of Japanese Buddhism and Shintō 528
37. Afterlife and Otherworld Empires
38. Apocalypse Now? Body, Soul and Judgment in the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons 549
39. The Evolution of the Buddhist Otherworld Empire in Early Medieval China 578
40. Space and Power in Byzantine Accounts of the Aerial Tollhouses 603
41. The End of the End: Devotion as an Antidote to Hell 616
42. Empires and Last Days 2
43. The Multiple Uses of an Enemy: Gog, Magog and the “Two-Horned One” 631
44. A.D. 672 – The Apex of Apocalyptic Thought in the Early Medieval Latin West 642
45. Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius’ Histories Against the Pagans in the Carolingian World 674
46. The Bede Goes On: Pastoral Eschatology in the Prologue to the Chronicle of Moissac (Paris BN lat. 4886) 698
47. The Afterlife of Eschatology
48. The Testament of Time – The Apocalypse of John and the recapitulatio of Time according to Giorgio Agamben 733
49. Eschatology as Occidental Lebensform: The Case of Jacob Taubes 759
50. History beyond the Ken: Towards a Critical Historiography of Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes and Michel Foucault 783
51. Index
52. Proper Names 817
53. Geographical Names and Toponyms 829