A companion to the premodern Apocalypse / / edited by Michael A. Ryan.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume 64
• TeilnehmendeR: Ryan, Michael A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; Volume 64.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (462 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The final book of the New Testament, the Apocalypse, has been controversial since its initial appearance during the first century A.D. For centuries after, theologians, exegetes, scholars, and preachers have grappled with the imagery and symbolism behind this fascinating and terrifying book. Their thoughts and ideas regarding the apocalypse—and its trials and tribulations—were received within both elite and popular culture in the medieval and early modern eras. Therefore, one may rightly call the Apocalypse, and its accompanying hopes and fears, a foundational pillar of Western Civilization. The interest in the Apocalypse, and apocalyptic movements, continues apace in modern scholarship and society alike. This present volume, A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse, collates essays from specialists in the study of premodern apocalyptic subjects. It is designed to orient undergraduate and graduate students, as well as more established scholars, to the state of the field of premodern apocalyptic studies as well as to point them in future directions for their scholarship and/or pedagogy. Contributors are: Roland Betancourt, Robert Boenig, Richard K. Emmerson, Ernst Hintz, László Hubbes, Hiram Kümper, Natalie Latteri, Thomas Long, Katherine Olson, Kevin Poole, Matthias Riedl, Michael A. Ryan

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Michael A. Ryan -- Introduction: A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse / Michael A. Ryan -- Medieval Illustrated Apocalypse Manuscripts / Richard K. Emmerson -- Jewish Apocalypticism: An Historiography / Natalie E. Latteri -- The Western Apocalypse Commentary Tradition of the Early Middle Ages / Kevin Poole -- Apocalyptic as a New Mental Paradigm of the Middle Ages / László Hubbes -- Prolepsis and Anticipation: The Apocalyptic Futurity of the Now, East and West / Roland Betancourt -- Muspilli: Old High German Judgment Day – Judicial Practice and Salvation in the Ninth Century / Ernst Ralf Hintz -- Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval German Historiography: Otto of Freising and Beyond / Hiram Kümper -- Apocalyptic Violence and Revolutionary Action: Thomas Müntzer’s Sermon to the Princes / Matthias Riedl -- The Apocalypse in Medieval England / Robert Boenig -- “Earth and Sky will be Ablaze”: The Apocalypse, Hell, and Judgment in Pre-modern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany / Katherine K. Olson -- Revising the Revelation: Early Modern Appropriations of Medieval Apocalypticism / Thomas Long -- Index / Michael A. Ryan.