Cultures of Eschatology

9783110597745
9783110597745
	Contents
	Preface and Acknowledgements
	Notes on Contributors, volume 1
	Notes on Contributors, volume 2
	Cultures of Eschatology, volume 1. Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
	Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Cultures of Eschatology
	Literary and Visual Traditions
	Making Ends Meet: Western Eschatologies, or the Future of a Society (9th–12th Centuries). Addition of Individual Projects, or Collective Construction of a Radiant Dawn?
	Apocalyptic Literature – A Never-Ending Story
	“When the Sun is Shrouded in Darkness and the Stars are Dimmed” (Qurʾan 81:1–2). Imagery, Rhetoric and Doctrinal Instruction in Muslim Apocalyptic Literature
	Volatile Images: The Empty Throne and its Place in the Byzantine Last Judgment Iconography
	Appendix
	On some Buddhist Uses of the kaliyuga
	Scriptural Traditions and their Reinterpretations
	Choices – The Use of Textual Authorities in the Revelation of John
	Manichaean Eschatology: Gnostic-Christian Thinking about Last Things
	The Third Latin Recension of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius – Introduction and Edition
	Appendix: Cinzia Grifoni, cur., Pseudo-Methodius’ Revelationes in the so-called Third Latin Recension
	Eschatological Relativity. On the Scriptural Undermining of Apocalypses in Jewish Second Temple, Late Antique and Medieval Receptions of the Book of Watchers
	Empires and Last Days 1
	Eschatologies of the Sword, Compared: Latin Christianity, Islam(s), and Japanese Buddhism
	The Portents of the Hour: Eschatology and Empire in the Early Islamic Tradition
	The History of Ibn Ḥabīb: al-Andalus in the Last Days
	Apocalyptic Insiders? Identity and Heresy in Early Medieval Iberia and Francia
	Apocalyptic Cosmologies and End Time Actors
	Treasure Texts on the Age of Decline: Prophecies Concerning the Hidden Land of Yolmo, their Reception and Impact
	Gog and Magog Crossing Borders: Biblical, Christian and Islamic Imaginings
	Zaydī Theology Popularised: A Hailstorm Hitting the Heterodox
	Political Propheticism. John of Rupescissa’s Figure of the End Times Emperor and its Evolution
	Death and Last Judgment
	Death and Eschatological Beliefs in the Lives of the Prophets according to Islam
	Scattered Bones and Miracles – The Cult of Saints, the Resurrection of the Body and Eschatological Thought in the Works of Gregory of Tours
	Arguing for Improvement: The Last Judgment, Time and the Future in Dhuoda’s Liber manualis
	Death and Pollution as a Common Matrix of Japanese Buddhism and Shintō
	Afterlife and Otherworld Empires
	Apocalypse Now? Body, Soul and Judgment in the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons
	The Evolution of the Buddhist Otherworld Empire in Early Medieval China
	Space and Power in Byzantine Accounts of the Aerial Tollhouses
	The End of the End: Devotion as an Antidote to Hell
	Empires and Last Days 2
	The Multiple Uses of an Enemy: Gog, Magog and the “Two-Horned One”
	A.D. 672 – The Apex of Apocalyptic Thought in the Early Medieval Latin West
	Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius’ Histories Against the Pagans in the Carolingian World
	The Bede Goes On: Pastoral Eschatology in the Prologue to the Chronicle of Moissac (Paris BN lat. 4886)
	The Afterlife of Eschatology
	The Testament of Time – The Apocalypse of John and the recapitulatio of Time according to Giorgio Agamben
	Eschatology as Occidental Lebensform: The Case of Jacob Taubes
	History beyond the Ken: Towards a Critical Historiography of Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes and Michel Foucault
	Index
	Proper Names
	Geographical Names and Toponyms