IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1509: Apocalypticism and Prognostication in the Early and High Medieval West, I: The Early Middle Ages
Thursday 12 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg |
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| Organiser: | Levi Roach, St John's College, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Levi Roach, St John's College, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1509-a | Apocalyptic Traditions in the Western Empire in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 1509-b | Narrative Time: Different Perspectives of End-Time in the Works of Augustine, Jerome, and Sulpicius Severus (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life |
| Paper 1509-c | Bede's History of the Future (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Apocalypticism and prognostication, though essential aspects of medieval religious belief, have not generally received the attention they deserve from modern historians. The reasons for this seem to be twofold: firstly, already in the Middle Ages contemporaries were wary about such beliefs, which were often dangerously heterodox and tended to be treated with suspicion by the ecclesiastical hierarchy; and secondly, scholars have often been reluctant to admit that the objects of their study may have been influenced by what seem to us to be such 'irrational' beliefs. These sessions seek to challenge such presumptions by re-examining the central role of apocalyptic thought and prognostication in Western Europe in the early and high Middle Ages. |