Why were eschatological movements so pervasive in early modern times? This volume provides some answers to this question by exploring the interconnected histories of confessions and religions from Moscow to Cusco.
Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their religious activism. From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, numerous apocalyptical and messianic movements came to the fore across Eurasia and North Africa, raising questions about possible interconnections.
Why were eschatological movements so pervasive in early modern times? This volume provides some answers to this question by exploring the interconnected histories of confessions and religions from Moscow to Cusco. It offers a broad picture of Christian and, to a lesser extent, Jewish and Islamic eschatological movements from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, thereby bridging important and long-standing gaps in the historiography.
Apocalypse Now
will appeal to both researchers and students of the history of early modern religion and politics in the Christian, Jewish and Islamic worlds. By exploring connections between numerous eschatological movements, it gives a fresh insight into one of the most promising fields of European and global history.
Why were eschatological movements so pervasive in early modern times? This volume provides some answers to this question by exploring the interconnected histories of confessions and religions from Moscow to Cusco.
Introduction /
1. Tįborite Revolutionary Apocalypticism: Mapping
Influences and Divergences /
2. Heretical Eschatology and Its Impact on
Radical Reformation Movements: The Flagellants of Thuringia in the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Centuries, Thomas Müntzer, and the Anabaptists /
3. Terror, War
and Reformation: Ivan the Terrible in the Age of Apocalypticism /
4. A
Messiah from the Left Side /
5. Millenarian News and Connected Spaces in
17th-Century Europe /
6. Carvajal and the Franciscans: Jewish-Christian
Eschatological Expectations in a New World Setting /
7. Kabbalistic
Influences on "Pietistic" Millenarian Expectations: Philipp Jakob Speners
(16351705) Eschatological View Between Scripture and Christian Kabbalah /
8.
Everyday Apocalypse: Russian and Jewish "Sects" at the End of the Eighteenth
Century /
9. Margins of the Encubierto: The Messianic Kings Tradition in the
Iberian World (15th17th Centuries) /
10. Mirror Images: Imperial Eschatology
and Interreligious Transfer in Seventeenth-Century Greek Orthodoxy /
11.
Restorers of the Divine Law: Native American Revolts in the New World,
Christianity, and the Quest for Purity in the Age of Revolution
Damien Tricoire is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Trier University, Germany, and Associate Member of the Center Roland Mousnier (Sorbonne/CNRS). His research concentrates on the religious, intellectual, informational and social underpinnings of political order, projects, conflicts and revolutions in the European and colonial world from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
Lionel Laborie is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at the Institute for History, Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research concentrates on the cultural history of ideas and beliefs in early modern Europe, with a particular interest in religious dissenters, transnational networks, radicalism and tolerance in the long eighteenth century.
