The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

✍ Scribed by Norman Cohn

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1970
Tongue: English
Leaves: 419
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
Foreword......Page 10
Introduction: The scope of this book......Page 14
Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic......Page 18
The apocalyptic tradition in medieval Europe......Page 28
The ideal of the apostolic life......Page 36
Some early messiahs......Page 40
The impact of rapid social change......Page 52
The poor in the first crusades......Page 60
Saviours in the Last Days......Page 70
The demonic hosts......Page 73
Phantasy, anxiety and social myth......Page 83
The Pseudo-Baldwin and the 'Master of Hungary'......Page 88
The last crusades of the poor......Page 97
Joachite prophecy and Frederick II......Page 107
The resurrection of Frederick......Page 112
Manifestos for a future Frederick......Page 117
The genesis of the flagellant movement......Page 126
Revolutionary flagellants......Page 135
The secret flagellants of Thuringia......Page 141
The heresy of the Free Spirit......Page 147
The Amaurians......Page 151
The sociology of the Free Spirit......Page 155
The spread of the movement......Page 170
The way to self-deification......Page 179
The doctrine of mystical anarchism......Page 183
In the thought of Antiquity......Page 194
In patristic and medieval thought......Page 198
Marginalia to the English Peasants' Revolt......Page 205
The Taborite Apocalypse......Page 212
Anarcho-communism in Bohemia......Page 221
The Drummer of Niklashausen......Page 230
Thomas Müntzer......Page 241
Anabaptism and social unrest......Page 259
Münster as the New Jerusalem......Page 268
The messianic reign of John of Leyden......Page 278
Conclusion......Page 288
Appendix. The 'Free Spirit' in Cromwell's England: the Ranters and their literature......Page 294
Notes......Page 340
Bibliography......Page 379
B......Page 408
C......Page 409
E......Page 411
G......Page 412
J......Page 413
M......Page 414
P......Page 416
S......Page 417
T......Page 418
Z......Page 419

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