Liknande böcker

Historical Works
Bok av The Venerable Bede
Tusenårsstriden : hur kristendomen segrade i Västeuropa
Bok av Tom Holland
The Old English history of the world : an Anglo-Saxon rewriting of Orosius
Bok av Paulus Orosius
Medieval heresy : popular movements from the Gregorian reform to the Ref...
Bok av Malcolm D. Lambert
Saints and sainthood around the Baltic Sea : identity, literacy, and com...
Bok av Carsten Selch Jensen
Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages : d...
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The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 3, Early Medieval Christia...
Bok av Thomas F. X Noble
Tempelriddarna och korstågen till det Heliga landet
Bok av Piers Paul Read

The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

Bok av Norman Cohn
The Middle Ages inherited from antiquity a tradition of prophecy and gave it new life. This tradition foretold a millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new paradise on earth, free from suffering and sin. This is the story of those millenarian fanaticisms, and points to their persistence in the modern era.