1st Edition

Apocalypse Now Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries

Edited By Damien Tricoire, Lionel Laborie Copyright 2023
296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

Damien Tricoire

1. Táborite Revolutionary Apocalypticism: Mapping Influences and Divergences

Martin Pjecha

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

Ingrid Würth

3. Terror, War and Reformation: Ivan the Terrible in the Age of Apocalypticism

Damien Tricoire

4. A Messiah from the Left Side

Moti Benmelech

5. Millenarian News and Connected Spaces in 17th-Century Europe 

William O’Reilly

6. Carvajal and the Franciscans: Jewish-Christian Eschatological Expectations in a New World Setting

Sina Rauschenbach

7. Kabbalistic Influences on "Pietistic" Millenarian Expectations: Philipp Jakob Spener’s (1635–1705) Eschatological View Between Scripture and Christian Kabbalah

Elisa Bellucci

8. Everyday Apocalypse: Russian and Jewish "Sects" at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Agnieszka Zaganczyk-Neufeld

9. Margins of the Encubierto: The Messianic Kings’ Tradition in the Iberian World (15th17th Centuries)

Claudio César Rizzuto

10. Mirror Images: Imperial Eschatology and Interreligious Transfer in Seventeenth-Century Greek Orthodoxy

Nikolas Pissis

11. Restorers of the Divine Law: Native American Revolts in the New World, Christianity, and the Quest for Purity in the Age of Revolution

Catherine Ballériaux, in collaboration with Damien Tricoire

Biography

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.