The Apocalyptic Year 1000 Religious Expectaton and Social Change, 950-1050

by Landes, Richard; Gow, Andrew; Van Meter, David

• ISBN13: 9780195161625
• ISBN10: 0195161629
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The essays in this book challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. Several basic questions unify the essays: What chronological and theological assumptions underlay apocalyptic and millennialspeculations around the Year 1000? How broadly disseminated were those speculations? Can we speak of a mentality of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties on the eve of the millennium? If so, how did authorities respond to or even contribute to the formation of this mentality? What were the socialramifications of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties, and of any efforts to suppress or redirect the more radical impulses that bred them? How did contemporaries conceptualize and then historicize the passing of the millennial date of 1000? Including the work of British, French, German, Dutch, andAmerican scholars, this book will be the definitive resource on this fascinating topic, and should at the same time provoke new interest in and debate on the nature and causes of social change in early medieval Europe.

Table of Contents

Preface: The "terrors" of the Year 1000: Une Question Mal Posée	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xv
The Apocalyptic Year 1000	p. 1
Introduction The Terribles Espoirs of 1000 and the Tacit Fears of 2000	p. 3
Notes	p. 11
Awaiting the End of Time Around the Turn of the Year 1000	p. 17
The Apocalyptic Year 1000 in Medieval Thought	p. 65
Stalking the Signs: the Apocalyptic Commentaries	p. 67
Notes	p. 78
Adso of Montier-En-Der and the Fear of the Year 1000	p. 81
Notes	p. 89
Thietland's Commentary on Second Thessalonians: Digressions on the Antichrist and the End of the Millennium	p. 93
Notes	p. 102
Avarice and the Apocalypse	p. 109
Notes	p. 116
Waiting for the Millennium	p. 121
The Apocalyptic Year 1000 in Medieval Art and Literature	p. 137
Apocalypse and Last Judgment Around the Year 1000	p. 139
Appendix: The Text of Andrew of Fleury	p. 152
Notes	p. 153
The Millennium, Time, and History for the Anglo-Saxons	p. 155
Notes	p. 177
The Cult of St. Michael the Archangel and the "terrors of the Year 1000"	p. 181
Notes	p. 193
Eschatology, Millenarian Apocalypticism, and the Liturgical Anti-Judaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays	p. 205
Notes	p. 220
Visualizing the Millennium: Eschatological Rhetoric for the Ottonian Court	p. 231
Notes	p. 239
Historiography of the Apocalyptic Year 1000	p. 242
The Fear of an Apocalyptic Year 1000: Augustinian Historiography, Medieval and Modern	p. 243
Notes	p. 260
Eschatological Imagination and the Program of Roman Imperial and Ecclesiastical Renewal at the End of the Tenth Century	p. 271
Notes	p. 283
Satan's Bonds Are Extremely Loose: Apocalyptic Expectation in Anglo-Saxon England During the Millennial Era	p. 289
Notes	p. 303
Apocalyptic Moments and the Eschatological Rhetoric of Reform in the Early Eleventh Century: the Case of the Visionary of St. Vaast	p. 311
Notes	p. 321
Tools and Sources	p. 328
The Astronomical Situation Around the Year 1000	p. 329
Notes	p. 334
Selected Documents on Eschatological Expectations and Social Change Around the Year 1000	p. 337
Notes	p. 346
Index	p. 347
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