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| Titre : | The Pursuit of the Millenium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages |
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| Auteurs : | Norman Cohn, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | Reprint of the revised and expanded ed. |
| Editeur : | New York [USA] : Oxford University Press, 1977 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-19-500456-4 |
| Format : | 412 p. / Bibliographie; index; 16 planches ill. N&B hors-texte |
| Note générale : | 1st ed. 1957. 1st revised and expanded ed. 1970. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | EA/D (Eschatologie: approche historique) |
| Résumé : | Established as a classic virtually upon its publication, thisibook tells the fascinating story of revolutionary and anarchic sects and movements in medieval Europe. At its core is a new and vital interpretation of historical forces that compels a reconsideration of the European past. Professor Cohn shows how the desire of the poor to improve the material condition of their lives became transfused between the twelfth and the sixteenth century with prophecies of a prodigious final struggle between the hosts of Christ and Antichrist—from which another paradise or Kingdom of the Saints was to emerge. Using modern sociological and psychological concepts, the author analyses the significance of these medieval strivings; and he suggests also how these phenomena relate to the revolutionary movements of our own time. The new edition has been revised and expanded throughout, and contains an entirely new chapter. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Foreword
- Introduction: The scope of this book - 1. The Tradition of Apocalyptic Prophecy: Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic / The apocalyptic tradition in medieval Europe - 2. The Tradition of Religious Dissent: The ideal of the apostolic life / Some early messiahs - 3. The Messianism of the Disoriented Poor: The impact of rapid social change / The poor in the first crusades - 4. The Saints Against the Hosts of Antichrist: Saviours in the Last Days / The demonic hosts / Phantasy, anxiety and social myth - 5. In the Backwash of the Crusades: The Pseudo-Baldwin and the ‘Master of Hungary’ / The last crusades of the poor - 6. The Emperor Frederick as Messiah: Joachite prophecy and Frederick II / The resurrection of Frederick / Manifestos for a future Frederick - 7. An Elite of Self-immolating Redeemers: The genesis of the flagellant movement / Revolutionary flagellants / The secret flagellants of Thuringia - 8. An Elite of Amoral Supermen (i): The heresy of the Free Spirit / The Amaurians / The sociology of the Free Spirit - 9. An Elite of Amoral Supermen (ii): The spread of the movement / The way to self-deification / The doctrine of mystical anarchism - 10. The Egalitarian State of Nature: In the thought of Antiquity / In patristic and medieval thought - 11. The Egalitarian Millennium (i): Marginalia to the English Peasants’ Revolt / The Taborite Apocalypse / Anarcho-communism in Bohemia - 12. The Egalitarian Millennium (ii): The Drummer of Niklashausen / Thomas Müntzer - 13. The Egalitarian Millennium (iii): Anabaptism and social unrest / Münster as the New Jerusalem / The messianic reign of John of Leyden - Conclusion - Appendix. The ‘Free Spirit’ in Cromwell’s England: the Ranters and their literature - Notes - Bibliography - Index |
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