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The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium
M. Frassetto
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Description for The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium
Paperback. Editor(s): Frassetto, Michael. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HRA; HRAB; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This collection of new essays examines the long-standing question of apocalyptic expectations around the turn of the first millennium. Including works by scholars of medieval history, literature, and religion, this book argues that apocalyptic expectations did exist around the year 1000. It provides a more balanced and nuanced approach to the issue than the traditional views that either identify a time of fear, the 'terrors of the year 1000', or deny that awareness of the millennium existed. This book, instead, recognizes that there were a variety of responses to the eschatological years 1000 and 1033 and that these responses contributed ... Read more
This collection of new essays examines the long-standing question of apocalyptic expectations around the turn of the first millennium. Including works by scholars of medieval history, literature, and religion, this book argues that apocalyptic expectations did exist around the year 1000. It provides a more balanced and nuanced approach to the issue than the traditional views that either identify a time of fear, the 'terrors of the year 1000', or deny that awareness of the millennium existed. This book, instead, recognizes that there were a variety of responses to the eschatological years 1000 and 1033 and that these responses contributed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349730551
SKU
V9781349730551
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About M. Frassetto
MICHAEL FRASSETTO is the religion editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He earned his Ph.D. for the University of Delaware, where he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the German Democratic Republic. He is the editor, with David Blanks, of Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Perception of Other, and the author of numerous articles ... Read more
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