The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349730556 ISBN 13: 9781349730551

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Synopsis

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 to the broader social and religious developments associated with the birth of European civilization.

About this title

Review:

'Scholarly wheat from among the chaff of research...' - Christopher M. Bellitto, History: Reviews of New Books

About the Author:

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 on medieval religion and society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1349730556
• ISBN 13: 9781349730551
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 289
• Editor: Frassetto M.