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Author:   Hans-Christian Lehner
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.798kg
ISBN:  

9789004461024

ISBN 10:   9004461027
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   22 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures and Tables The End(s) of Time(s): An Introduction Hans-Christian Lehner Part 1 1 Christian Perspectives on History, Eschatology, and Transcendence in the Latin Christian Middle Ages Klaus Herbers 2 Byzantine Predictions of the End of the World in 500, 1000, and 1492 AD Wolfram Brandes 3 The Great Peace and the Ends of Time in Early Imperial China Zhao Lu 4 Tibetan Buddhist Dystopian Narratives and their Pedagogical Dimensions Rolf Scheuermann 5 Ragnaroek: Prophecies and Notions of the End Time in Old Norse Religion Thomas Krumpel 6 An Overview of Baha'i Eschatology, in a Tapestry of Five Strands Bernardo Bertholin Kerr Part 2 7 Beatus of Liebana and the Spiritualized Understanding of Apocalypse in Medieval Iberia Gaelle Bosseman 8 Muhammad, Mahdi, Antichrist: Muslims in Joachim of Fiore's Apocalyptic Eschatology Julia Eva Wannenmacher 9 The Infernal Trinity as Passivized Pacemaker of Salvation History: Satan's Particular Eschatological Activity in Anonymus Bambergensis' Tracts De semine scripturarum and De principe mundi Matthias Kaup Part 3 10 Competing Eschatological Scenarios during the Taiping War, 1851-1864 Vincent Goossaert 11 The Messianic Quest for an Earthly Paradise in the Modern Era of Revolution Jurgen Gebhardt 12 Indigenous Millennialism: Murabitun Sufism in the Black African townships of South Africa Matthias Gebauer 13 Apocalyptic Millennialism: The Most Powerful, Volatile, Imaginary Force in Human History Richard Landes Index

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Dr Hans-Christian Lehner (1982) is research fellow of Medieval History at the ICRH in Erlangen. His monograph Prophetie zwischen Eschatologie und Politik (2015) was focusing on prognostics as outlined in medieval historiography. He edited, translated, and annotated the 12th century Visio Tnugdali (with Maximilian Nix, 2018). With Matthias Heiduk and Klaus Herbers he edited the handbook Prognostication in the Middle Ages (2 vols. 2021).

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