The Eschatological Imagination: Space, Time, and Experience (1300–1800)

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Contents
Acknowledgements
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Notes on the Contributors
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The Space-Time Dimension of Early Modern Eschatology: An Introduction
Part 1
Cosmology and Eschatology
	2
Depicting the Universal Conflagration: Time, Space, and Artifice in Peter Paul Rubens’s Fall of the Damned
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A Castle in the Air? Space, Time, and Sensation in Gabriel de Henao’s Empyreologia
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Kepler’s Somnium as Purgatorial Journey
Part 2
Underlands and Netherworlds
	5
The Birth of Hell: An Angel, His Fall, and His Reign among Us
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‘Oh How Unlike the Place from Whence They Fell!’ John Milton’s Primordial Hell in Paradise Lost
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God’s Underlands: Athanasius Kircher’s Epic Journey in the Mundus Subterraneus
Part 3
Visions of Heaven and Hell
	8
Ecstatic Visions: The Eschatological Imagination of Spanish Mystic Juana de la Cruz (d. 1534)
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Describing the Inconceivable in Eighteenth-Century Methodist and Quaker Visions of the Afterlife
	10
From the Isle of Patmos to the Territory of the Plumed Serpent: Eschatological Imaginations Sparked by the Virgin of Guadalupe in Colonial New Spain
Part 4
Spiritual Reckoning and Refuge
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Pondering Mary: Michelangelo’s Farewell to Dante
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The Calvinist Theatre of God as a Pleasure Garden at the Time of the First French War of Religion (ca. 1560)
Part 5
Sites of Purgation, Meditation, and Martyrdom
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The Desert at the World’s End: Eschatological Space in Van Hemessen’s Hermit Landscapes
	14
‘Abstracto igitur animo’: Eschatological Image-Making in the Emblematic Spiritual Exercises of Jan David, S.J.
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The Jesuit Martyrdom Landscape and the Optics of Death
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