The End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality

1. Introduction, Jessica A. Boon and Eric Knibbs

Part One: Gendering the Apocalypse

2. The Sobered Sibyl: Gender, Apocalypse and Hair in Dio Chrysostom¿s   Discourse 1 and the Shepherd of Hermas, Mary R. D¿Angelo

3. The Marian Apocalyptic of a Visionary Preacher: The Conorte of Juana de la

            Cruz, 1481-1534, Jessica A. Boon

4. The City Coming Down Out of Heaven (Rev. 21:10): Bologna as Jerusalem, Gabriella

Zarri

 

Part Two: Apocalyptic Theology and Exegesis

5. Risen to Judgment: What Augustine Saw, Francine Cardman

6. Berengaudus on the Apocalypse, Eric Knibbs

7. Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Joachim of Fiore¿s Expositio in

 Apocalypsim, Bernard McGinn

8. Juan de Horozco y Covarrubias's Tratado dela verdadera y falsa prophecia

(1588) and the Influence of Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions in Post-Tridentine Spain, James F. Melvin

 

Part Three: The Eschaton in Political, Liturgical, and Literary Contexts

9. The End of the World as They Knew it? Jews, Christians, Samaritans and

Endtime Speculation in the Fifth-Century, Ross S. Kraemer

10. End Time at Hand: Innocent III, Joachim of Fiore, and the Fourth

            Crusade, Marcia L. Colish

 

11. The End of a Single World: The Sacrament of Extreme Unction in Scholastic

Thought, Lesley Smith

12. Amorous and Religious ¿Apocalypses¿ in John Donne¿s Metaphysical

Imagination, Angela Locatelli


 

Eric Knibbs is a researcher at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich, Germany, and studies legal history, with special focus on the early medieval canonical tradition and the False Decretals of Pseudo-Isidore.

Jessica A. Boon is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA, specializing in premodern Spanish mysticism and theories of embodiment. She has published The Mystical Science of the Soul: Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredös Recollection Method (2012) and numerous articles on Castilian visionaries.

Erica Gelser is an independent scholar, USA, who specializes in devotional movements and the history of Christian thought, particularly with respect to later medieval Germany.