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 / / Veronika Wieser, Vincent Eltschinger, Johann Heiss |
Autore | Wieser Veronika |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXX, 834 p.) |
Collana | Cultural History of Apocalyptic Thought / Kulturgeschichte der Apokalypse |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / General |
Soggetto genere / forma | Cross-cultural studies. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Medieval history
apocalypticism messianism eschatology End-Time scenarios |
ISBN |
3-11-059358-0
3-11-059774-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cultures of Eschatology -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors, volume 1 -- Notes on Contributors, volume 2 -- Cultures of Eschatology, volume 1. Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities -- Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Cultures of Eschatology -- 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? -- Apocalyptic Literature - A Never-Ending Story -- "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 -- Volatile Images: The Empty Throne and its Place in the Byzantine Last Judgment Iconography -- Appendix -- On some Buddhist Uses of the kaliyuga -- Scriptural Traditions and their Reinterpretations -- Choices - The Use of Textual Authorities in the Revelation of John -- Manichaean Eschatology: Gnostic-Christian Thinking about Last Things -- The Third Latin Recension of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius - Introduction and Edition -- Appendix: Cinzia Grifoni, cur., Pseudo-Methodius' Revelationes in the so-called Third Latin Recension -- Eschatological Relativity. On the Scriptural Undermining of Apocalypses in Jewish Second Temple, Late Antique and Medieval Receptions of the Book of Watchers -- Empires and Last Days 1 -- Eschatologies of the Sword, Compared: Latin Christianity, Islam(s), and Japanese Buddhism -- The Portents of the Hour: Eschatology and Empire in the Early Islamic Tradition -- The History of Ibn Ḥabīb: al-Andalus in the Last Days -- Apocalyptic Insiders? Identity and Heresy in Early Medieval Iberia and Francia -- Apocalyptic Cosmologies and End Time Actors -- Treasure Texts on the Age of Decline: Prophecies Concerning the Hidden Land of Yolmo, their Reception and Impact -- Gog and Magog Crossing Borders: Biblical, Christian and Islamic Imaginings -- Zaydī Theology Popularised: A Hailstorm Hitting the Heterodox -- Political Propheticism. John of Rupescissa's Figure of the End Times Emperor and its Evolution -- 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 -- Scattered Bones and Miracles - The Cult of Saints, the Resurrection of the Body and Eschatological Thought in the Works of Gregory of Tours -- Arguing for Improvement: The Last Judgment, Time and the Future in Dhuoda's Liber manualis -- Death and Pollution as a Common Matrix of Japanese Buddhism and Shintō -- Afterlife and Otherworld Empires -- Apocalypse Now? Body, Soul and Judgment in the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons -- The Evolution of the Buddhist Otherworld Empire in Early Medieval China -- Space and Power in Byzantine Accounts of the Aerial Tollhouses -- The End of the End: Devotion as an Antidote to Hell -- Empires and Last Days 2 -- The Multiple Uses of an Enemy: Gog, Magog and the "Two-Horned One" -- A.D. 672 - The Apex of Apocalyptic Thought in the Early Medieval Latin West -- Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius' Histories Against the Pagans in the Carolingian World -- The Bede Goes On: Pastoral Eschatology in the Prologue to the Chronicle of Moissac (Paris BN lat. 4886) -- The Afterlife of Eschatology -- The Testament of Time - The Apocalypse of John and the recapitulatio of Time according to Giorgio Agamben -- Eschatology as Occidental Lebensform: The Case of Jacob Taubes -- History beyond the Ken: Towards a Critical Historiography of Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes and Michel Foucault -- Index -- Proper Names -- Geographical Names and Toponyms |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996354143503316 |
Wieser Veronika | ||
Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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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 / / Veronika Wieser, Vincent Eltschinger, Johann Heiss |
Autore | Wieser Veronika |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXX, 834 p.) |
Collana | Cultural History of Apocalyptic Thought / Kulturgeschichte der Apokalypse |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / General |
Soggetto genere / forma | Cross-cultural studies. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Medieval history
apocalypticism messianism eschatology End-Time scenarios |
ISBN |
3-11-059358-0
3-11-059774-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cultures of Eschatology -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors, volume 1 -- Notes on Contributors, volume 2 -- Cultures of Eschatology, volume 1. Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities -- Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Cultures of Eschatology -- 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? -- Apocalyptic Literature - A Never-Ending Story -- "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 -- Volatile Images: The Empty Throne and its Place in the Byzantine Last Judgment Iconography -- Appendix -- On some Buddhist Uses of the kaliyuga -- Scriptural Traditions and their Reinterpretations -- Choices - The Use of Textual Authorities in the Revelation of John -- Manichaean Eschatology: Gnostic-Christian Thinking about Last Things -- The Third Latin Recension of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius - Introduction and Edition -- Appendix: Cinzia Grifoni, cur., Pseudo-Methodius' Revelationes in the so-called Third Latin Recension -- Eschatological Relativity. On the Scriptural Undermining of Apocalypses in Jewish Second Temple, Late Antique and Medieval Receptions of the Book of Watchers -- Empires and Last Days 1 -- Eschatologies of the Sword, Compared: Latin Christianity, Islam(s), and Japanese Buddhism -- The Portents of the Hour: Eschatology and Empire in the Early Islamic Tradition -- The History of Ibn Ḥabīb: al-Andalus in the Last Days -- Apocalyptic Insiders? Identity and Heresy in Early Medieval Iberia and Francia -- Apocalyptic Cosmologies and End Time Actors -- Treasure Texts on the Age of Decline: Prophecies Concerning the Hidden Land of Yolmo, their Reception and Impact -- Gog and Magog Crossing Borders: Biblical, Christian and Islamic Imaginings -- Zaydī Theology Popularised: A Hailstorm Hitting the Heterodox -- Political Propheticism. John of Rupescissa's Figure of the End Times Emperor and its Evolution -- 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 -- Scattered Bones and Miracles - The Cult of Saints, the Resurrection of the Body and Eschatological Thought in the Works of Gregory of Tours -- Arguing for Improvement: The Last Judgment, Time and the Future in Dhuoda's Liber manualis -- Death and Pollution as a Common Matrix of Japanese Buddhism and Shintō -- Afterlife and Otherworld Empires -- Apocalypse Now? Body, Soul and Judgment in the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons -- The Evolution of the Buddhist Otherworld Empire in Early Medieval China -- Space and Power in Byzantine Accounts of the Aerial Tollhouses -- The End of the End: Devotion as an Antidote to Hell -- Empires and Last Days 2 -- The Multiple Uses of an Enemy: Gog, Magog and the "Two-Horned One" -- A.D. 672 - The Apex of Apocalyptic Thought in the Early Medieval Latin West -- Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius' Histories Against the Pagans in the Carolingian World -- The Bede Goes On: Pastoral Eschatology in the Prologue to the Chronicle of Moissac (Paris BN lat. 4886) -- The Afterlife of Eschatology -- The Testament of Time - The Apocalypse of John and the recapitulatio of Time according to Giorgio Agamben -- Eschatology as Occidental Lebensform: The Case of Jacob Taubes -- History beyond the Ken: Towards a Critical Historiography of Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes and Michel Foucault -- Index -- Proper Names -- Geographical Names and Toponyms |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910424627003321 |
Wieser Veronika | ||
Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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