1st Edition

Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe An Interdisciplinary Study

Edited By Israel Sanmartín, Francisco Peña Copyright 2025
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually. The collected contributions analyze texts, authors, social movements, and cultural representations covering a wide period, from the 6 th to the 16 th century, in geographically liminal spaces where... Read more

Introduction

Israel Sanmartín and Francisco Peña

1. Interpreting Daniel’s Prophecy And Other Reckonings in Medieval Iberia: Edition and Commentary of a Short Collection

Rodrigo Furtado

2. Christian Time-Reckoning, the Fall of Rome, and the Coming of the Carolingian Epoch: Disorder in the Skies, saltus lunae, and the End of Times

Dimitri N. Starostin

3. The End of the World Happens Within. The Mystical Eschatology of the Syriac Book of Secrets (6th c.)

Nicolò Sassi

4. The First Treatise on Christian Eschatology: The Prognosticon of Julian of Toledo

Eva Castro

5. Medieval Eschatology and Invading Peoples in Eastern Slavic and Astur-Leonese Spheres

Enrique Santos Marinas

6. The Apocalyptic Drift of the Story of the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in the General e Grand Estoria

David Navarro and Francisco Peña

7. Eschatology as a Political Warning in the Libro de Gracián during the Reign of John II of Castile (1405-1454)

Roque Sampedro

8. A Contextual Proposal for the Study of the Debate on the Castilian Rocaçisas

Israel Sanmartín

9. Eschatological Memories of the Reign of the Catholic Monarchs in Late Sixteenth-Century Histories of Spain

Pablo Fernández Pérez and Iago Brais Ferrás García

10. The Antichrist Critique in Jan Hus’s Letter to Christian of Prachatice from 1413 and its Inspiration from John Wyclif

Lucie Mazalová

11. Rebels and the Antichrist: The Circulation of Prophecies during the Revolt of the Comuneros

Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer

Biography

Israel Sanmartín is Lecturer in Medieval History at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. His main lines of research are the history of medieval eschatology, historiography and theory of history, and neo-medievalism.

Francisco Peña Fernández is Professor of World Literatures at the University of British Columbia, and director of the international research project entitled “The Confluence of Religious Cultures in Medieval Historiography: Digital Edition of the General estoria” (DEGE). His main lines of research are Jewish-Christian relations in medieval Iberia, medieval historiography, and the Bible as literature.