BIBFRAME Work

Title

Expecting the end of the world in medieval Europe

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Peña Fernández, Francisco (editor)
• Sanmartín Barros, Israel (editor)

Subject

• Anxiety--History--To 1500 (LCSH)
• Europe--History--476-1492 (LCSH)
• End of the world--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500 (LCSH)
• Eschatology--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500 (LCSH)
• Islamic eschatology--History of doctrines (LCSH)
• Civilization, Medieval (LCSH)
• Middle Ages (LCSH)
• Eschatology, Jewish--History of doctrines (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 909.07 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: CB353 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually. The collected contributions analyze texts, authors, social movements, and cultural representations covering a wide period, from the 6th to the 16th century, in geographically liminal spaces where Catholic, Byzantine, Islamic, and Jewish cultures converged. This study provides a lens through which academics, specialists, and interested researchers can observe and reflect on this entire eschatological universe, dwelling both on well-known texts, authors, and events, and on others which are much less popular. In gathering different paradigms, tools, and theoretical frameworks, the book exposes readers to the complex reality of medieval anxiety regarding the end of the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Interpreting Daniel's prophecy and other reckonings in medieval Iberia: edition and commentary of a short collection / Rodrigo Furtado, Universidade de Lisboa -- Christian time-reckoning, the fall of Rome, and the coming of the Carolingian epoch: disorder in the skies, saltus lunae, and the end of times / Dimitri N. Starostin, University of St-Petersburg -- The end of the world happens within. The mystical eschatology of the Syriac Book of Secrets (6th c.) / Nicolò Sassi, St. Louis University -- The first treatise on Christian eschatology: the prognosticon of Julian of Toledo / Eva Castro, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela -- Medieval eschatology and invading peoples in Eastern Slavic and Astur-Leonese spheres / Enrique Santos Marinas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid -- The apocalyptic drift of the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in the General e Grand Estoria / David Navarro, Texas State University, and Francisco Peña, University of British Columbia -- Eschatology as a political warning in the Libro de Gracián during the reign of John II of Castile (1405-1454) / Roque Sampedro, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela -- A contextual proposal for the study of the debate on the Castilian Rocaçisas / Israel Sanmartín, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela -- Eschatological memories of the reign of the Catholic monarchs in late sixteenth century histories of Spain / Pablo Fernández Pérez and Iago Brais Ferrás García, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela -- The antichrist critique in Jan Hus's letter to Christian of Prachatice from 1413 and its inspiration from John Wyclif / Lucie Mazalová, Masaryk University Brno -- Rebels and the antichrist: the circulation of prophecies during the revolt of the Comuneros / Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer, Universidad de Sevilla

Authorized Access Point

Expecting the end of the world in medieval Europe

Geographic Coverage

• Europe

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:20:51.603307+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23816574

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc