Cultures of Eschatology: Volume 1: Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities. Volume 2: Time, Death and Afterlife in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities

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Cultures of Eschatology

Volume 1: Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities. Volume 2: Time, Death and Afterlife in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities

Edited by: Veronika Wieser , Vincent Eltschinger and Johann Heiss
Funded by: FWF

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 3 | Cultural History of Apocalyptic Thought / Kulturgeschichte der Apokalypse

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In all religions, in the medieval West as in the East, ideas about the past, the present and the future were shaped by expectations related to the End. The volumes Cultures of Eschatology explore the many ways apocalyptic thought and visions of the end intersected with the development of pre-modern religio-political communities, with social changes and with the emergence of new intellectual and literary traditions.

The two volumes present a wide variety of case studies from the early Christian communities of Antiquity, through the times of the Islamic invasion and the Crusades and up to modern receptions, from the Latin West to the Byzantine Empire, from South Yemen to the Hidden Lands of Tibetan Buddhism. Examining apocalypticism, messianism and eschatology in medieval Christian, Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist communities, the contributions paint a multi-faceted picture of End-Time scenarios and provide their readers with a broad array of source material from different historical contexts.

The first volume, Empires and Scriptural Authorities, examines the formation of literary and visual apocalyptic traditions, and the role they played as vehicles for defining a community’s religious and political enemies. The second volume, Time, Death and Afterlife, focuses on key topics of eschatology: death, judgment, afterlife and the perception of time and its end. It also analyses modern readings and interpretations of eschatological concepts.

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Veronika Wieser and Johann Heiss, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna; Vincent Eltschinger, École Praticque des Hautes Études, Paris.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Preface and Acknowledgements Veronika Wieser, Vincent Eltschinger and Johann Heiss Open Access Download PDF	XI
Notes on Contributors, volume 1 Open Access Download PDF	XIII
Notes on Contributors, volume 2 Open Access Download PDF	XIX
Cultures of Eschatology, volume 1. Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Cultures of Eschatology Veronika Wieser and Vincent Eltschinger Open Access Download PDF	1
Literary and Visual Traditions
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? Guy Lobrichon Open Access Download PDF	25
Apocalyptic Literature – A Never-Ending Story Uta Heil Open Access Download PDF	45
“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 Sebastian Günther Open Access Download PDF	66
Volatile Images: The Empty Throne and its Place in the Byzantine Last Judgment Iconography Armin Bergmeier Open Access Download PDF	84
Appendix Armin Bergmeier Open Access Download PDF	106
On some Buddhist Uses of the kaliyuga Vincent Eltschinger Open Access Download PDF	123
Scriptural Traditions and their Reinterpretations
Choices – The Use of Textual Authorities in the Revelation of John Michael Sommer Open Access Download PDF	165
Manichaean Eschatology: Gnostic-Christian Thinking about Last Things Johannes van Oort Open Access Download PDF	181
The Third Latin Recension of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius – Introduction and Edition Cinzia Grifoni and Clemens Gantner Open Access Download PDF	194
Appendix: Cinzia Grifoni, cur., Pseudo-Methodius’ Revelationes in the so-called Third Latin Recension Cinzia Grifoni and Clemens Gantner Open Access Download PDF	233
Eschatological Relativity. On the Scriptural Undermining of Apocalypses in Jewish Second Temple, Late Antique and Medieval Receptions of the Book of Watchers Matthias Däumer Open Access Download PDF	254
Empires and Last Days 1
Eschatologies of the Sword, Compared: Latin Christianity, Islam(s), and Japanese Buddhism Philippe Buc Open Access Download PDF	277
The Portents of the Hour: Eschatology and Empire in the Early Islamic Tradition Stephen Shoemaker Open Access Download PDF	294
The History of Ibn Ḥabīb: al-Andalus in the Last Days Ann Christys Open Access Download PDF	319
Apocalyptic Insiders? Identity and Heresy in Early Medieval Iberia and Francia James T. Palmer Open Access Download PDF	337
Apocalyptic Cosmologies and End Time Actors
Treasure Texts on the Age of Decline: Prophecies Concerning the Hidden Land of Yolmo, their Reception and Impact Zsóka Gelle Open Access Download PDF	359
Gog and Magog Crossing Borders: Biblical, Christian and Islamic Imaginings Faustina Doufikar-Aerts Open Access Download PDF	390
Zaydī Theology Popularised: A Hailstorm Hitting the Heterodox Johann Heiss and Eirik Hovden Open Access Download PDF	415
Political Propheticism. John of Rupescissa’s Figure of the End Times Emperor and its Evolution Elena Tealdi Open Access Download PDF	441
Cultures of Eschatology, volume 2. Time, Death and Afterlife in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
Death and Last Judgment
Death and Eschatological Beliefs in the Lives of the Prophets according to Islam Roberto Tottoli Open Access Download PDF	467
Scattered Bones and Miracles – The Cult of Saints, the Resurrection of the Body and Eschatological Thought in the Works of Gregory of Tours Pia Lucas Open Access Download PDF	479
Arguing for Improvement: The Last Judgment, Time and the Future in Dhuoda’s Liber manualis Miriam Czock Open Access Download PDF	509
Death and Pollution as a Common Matrix of Japanese Buddhism and Shintō Bernhard Scheid Open Access Download PDF	528
Afterlife and Otherworld Empires
Apocalypse Now? Body, Soul and Judgment in the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons Marilyn Dunn Open Access Download PDF	549
The Evolution of the Buddhist Otherworld Empire in Early Medieval China Frederick Shih-Chung Chen Open Access Download PDF	578
Space and Power in Byzantine Accounts of the Aerial Tollhouses Eirini Afentoulidou Open Access Download PDF	603
The End of the End: Devotion as an Antidote to Hell Marc Tiefenauer Open Access Download PDF	616
Empires and Last Days 2
The Multiple Uses of an Enemy: Gog, Magog and the “Two-Horned One” Johann Heiss Open Access Download PDF	631
A.D. 672 – The Apex of Apocalyptic Thought in the Early Medieval Latin West Immo Warntjes Open Access Download PDF	642
Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius’ Histories Against the Pagans in the Carolingian World Graeme Ward Open Access Download PDF	674
The Bede Goes On: Pastoral Eschatology in the Prologue to the Chronicle of Moissac (Paris BN lat. 4886) Rutger Kramer Open Access Download PDF	698
The Afterlife of Eschatology
The Testament of Time – The Apocalypse of John and the recapitulatio of Time according to Giorgio Agamben Kurt Appel Open Access Download PDF	733
Eschatology as Occidental Lebensform: The Case of Jacob Taubes Martin Treml Open Access Download PDF	759
History beyond the Ken: Towards a Critical Historiography of Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes and Michel Foucault Christian Zolles Open Access Download PDF	783
Index
Proper Names Open Access Download PDF	817
Geographical Names and Toponyms Open Access Download PDF	829

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