This collection of new essays examines the long-standing question of apocalyptic expectations around the turn of the first millennium. Including works by schola

The essays in this book challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millen

The French president Charles de Gaulle spoke of a Europe “from the Atlantic to the Urals”. Europe was spatially formed with these topographic parameters fro

Accomplished historical author James Reston, Jr., presents the enthralling saga of how the Christian kingdoms converted, conquered, and slaughtered their way to

This groundbreaking study reveals the distinctive impact of apocalyptic ideas about time, evil and power on church and society in the Latin West, c.400–c.1050