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Dr. Kneupper's meticulous study of late medieval apocalyptic prophesy sheds new light on the convoluted relationship between politics, religion, and culture at a defining moment in German history, and compels us to look at well-known documents in an entirely new light. This innovative study uses prophesies of the Endtimes to expose a crisis in German identity that redounded religiously and politically to dramatic effect across Europe. The result is deep historical insight into the political and religious tensions that ran across Germany in one of its most important historical moments. Dr. Kneupper's research should be required reading on the troubled relationship between religion and politics in the Late Middle Ages and in anticipation of the Reformation. --David J. Collins, S.J., editor of The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft from Antiquity to the Present This book opens up the fiendishly complex world of late medieval prophecy, more particularly texts centered on the German Empire and its imagined last days. Kneupper has uncovered new prophetic texts, broken through the binary of Latin and German, traced their expanding circulation in South German cities, and raised new questions about a possible emerging 'national' identity. This is an exemplary work of medieval scholarship. --John Van Engen, Andrew V. Tackes Professor of Medieval History, University of Notre Dame

By showing more concretely and in greater detail than ever before the ways in which the spread of anticlerical and apocalyptic prophecies went hand in hand with an emerging sense of what it meant to be German, Kneupper's work makes a significant contribution to our understanding of late medieval culture. Scholars in early modern studies, including those who focus on the Reformation era, can gain valuable insights here as well. * Robin B. Barnes, Renaissance Quarterly * Kneupper treats her subject with admirable care and precision. * John Watkins, The American Historical Review * The Empire at the End of Time should find an eager readership among historians of the late Middle Ages and the early Reformation, but also among readers curious to learn more about Christian apocalyptic traditions. * Jesse Spohnholz, Reading Religion *

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Frances Courtney Kneupper is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the University of Mississippi.

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