The Apocalyptic Year 1000

Landes, Richard; Gow, Andrew Colin; Meter, David C. Van

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“…The exact date of this, however, could and indeed should not be known, an agnostic position that has itself been styled "Augustinian". 84 It was not only the work of Augustine, but of a whole range of patristic thinkers that shaped the belief that the end must always be expected, even if the exact moment could not be known. James Palmer has noted that Carolingian libraries housed "many different apocalyptic and eschatological voices", a view "which complicates, without necessarily contradicting, arguments about the "Augustinian" tendencies of Carolingian intellectual life".…”

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Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius’ Histories Against the Pagans in the Carolingian World

Ward¹

2020

Cultures of Eschatology

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This essay seeks to uncover nuggets of eschatological thought in three Carolingian commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew. It does so by examining the different ways that Hrabanus Maurus, Paschasius Radbertus and Christian of Stavelot read and interpreted Orosius' Seven Books of Histories Against the Pagans, a work of Christian apologetic history composed c. 417. Orosius' Histories, which were hugely influential throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, typically have been seen as expressing a distinctly eschatological understanding of the Roman Empire, an understanding that is frequently contrasted with that of Orosius' teacher and dedicatee: Augustine of Hippo. The exegetical reception of Orosius, which has not yet been subject to close scrutiny, reveals that some ninth-century intellectuals did not use Orosius to show that the duration of the world was bound to the lifespan of the Roman Empire. Rather, they employed the Histories as an authoritative account of the beginnings of the ecclesia, the Christian Church. These biblical exegetes fashioned close intertextual bonds between Orosius' narrative and Matthew's account of the birth of Christ. By bringing Orosius into dialogue with the central narrative of Christianity, they invested the Histories with eschatological meaning.

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Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius’ Histories Against the Pagans in the Carolingian World

Ward¹

2020

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“…widespread outbreaks of sacerignis. 57 The meaning of this "web of wonders," "correspondences" and "cosmic" cohesion 58 could not avoid the apocalyptic sentiment at the approach of the millennium.…”

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“…These gatherings meant to revive peace and establish the holy faith, to suspend hostilities during the most sacred periods of liturgical calendar -the armistice of God, proposed to knights as a form of asceticism suited for their rank -, pilgrimages understood as a preparation for death and as a promise of salvation. These privations were considered "the means by which the people of God could persuade divine vengeance, clear currently the scourges and prepare itself for the day of wrath" 60 and the core of the collective consciousness which was under the empire of a disturbing expectation. At the same time, they also expressed the intensification of the religious experience, the propensity for the spiritual and personal dimension of eschatology, and "the way in which the Last Things are realized for each believer in his or her inner experience of Judgment and the Kingdom of Heaven."…”

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Saint Gerard of Cenad and the Intellectual Disputes of the Year 1000

Tănăsescu¹

2015

Philosophy, Communication, Media Sciences

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This paper aims to situate St. Gerard of Cenad's position in apocalyptic millenarianism as differentia specifica in genus proximum of the doctrinal position of the Church, subscribing to the thesis that Gerard's position constituted an attempt to connect the Jewish apocalyptic literature and the Christian millennarialism. It argues that St. Gerard of Cenad used the hymnal poetry of the prophet Daniel not only in order to invocate as theological argument "the inter-Testamentary unit"the fact that, in hermeneutic terms, the Old Testament announces the New Testament or "the coming of Jesus" -, but also to criticize the arbitrary and unbelieving power and to transmit to it and to all those who "rise" against the faith, alike Nebuchadnezzar in olden times, an apocalyptic admonishment.

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‘Wunschzeit’ Jerusalem: Rethinking the Distinction Between Time and Space in Medieval Utopias

Hoffarth

2017

The Fascination With Unknown Time

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The Apocalyptic Year 1000

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Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius’ Histories Against the Pagans in the Carolingian World

Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius’ Histories Against the Pagans in the Carolingian World

Saint Gerard of Cenad and the Intellectual Disputes of the Year 1000

‘Wunschzeit’ Jerusalem: Rethinking the Distinction Between Time and Space in Medieval Utopias

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