IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 134: Apocalypse across a Permeable Medieval World
Monday 1 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Organisers: | Matthew Gabriele, Department of Religion & Culture, Virginia Tech James T. Palmer, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
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| Moderator/Chair: | James T. Palmer, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 134-a | The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius: From Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities and Religious Life |
| Paper 134-b | An Actual Transformation around the Year 1000: Apocalypse and Monks Making History (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Political Thought and Religious Life |
| Paper 134-c | Tracing the Papal Antichrist in 14th-Century Polyphony (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy, Mentalities and Music |
| Abstract | Too often we think of apocalypse as about an ending, or more specifically a disaster – a response to, or conclusion of, some acute crisis. But of course the origins of the term itself is about how, in the Christian tradition, something that had formerly been hidden (God’s plan for the world) is suddenly made visible and understandable. After this revelation, the world is different. As such, apocalypse can productively be seen as transformation. This panel will take an interdisciplinary approach towards apocalypticism as a cultural force in a permeable medieval Europe. Rather than confining considerations of apocalyptic expectation to a more traditional ‘intellectual history’ frame, detached from wider considerations of contemporary politics, culture and religious practice, these papers will instead challenge us to think of how cultures and societies – often in conversation with one another - dealt with ideas of divine revelation across the breadth of the European Middle Ages and how those visions of transformation shaped what people did in their worlds. |