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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460220003321

Autore

Whalen Brett Edward

Titolo

Dominion of God [[electronic resource] ] : Christendom and apocalypse in the Middle Ages / / Brett Edward Whalen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-05480-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Classificazione

11.52

Disciplina

282/.40902

Soggetti

History - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Millennialism - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Popes - Temporal power - History - To 1500

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Electronic books.

Europe Church history 600-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Christendom and the origins of papal monarchy -- The chosen people and the enemies of God -- Reformist apocalypticism and the battlefield of history -- Joachim of Fiore and the Sabbath Age -- The Shepherd of the World -- Crusaders, missionaries, and prophets -- Contesting the end of days -- The New Jerusalem and the transfiguration of Christendom.

Sommario/riassunto

Brett Whalen explores the compelling belief that Christendom would spread to every corner of the earth before the end of time. During the High Middle Ages - an era of crusade, mission, and European expansion - ;the Western followers of Rome imagined the future conversion of Jews, Muslims, pagans, and Eastern Christians into one fold of God's people, assembled under the authority of the Roman Church.