Waiting for the End of the World

European Dimensions, 950-1200
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-34393-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

In Waiting for the End of the World: European Dimensions, 950–1200, Tsvetelin Stepanov offers a fresh, pan-European, look at a phenomenon that was typical not only for the Christians, but also for the other two monotheistic religions in Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stepanov, Tsvetelin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: How the Idea for This Book Came About

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1 European Dimensions of the Anticipation of the End of Times: Texts. Contexts. Real Places and Symbolic Topoi

1.1 Expectations for the End of Times in the Jewish Milieu, 10th–12th Centuries

1.2 Expectations for the End of Times in Western Europe

1.3 Expectations for the End of Times in Byzantium

1.4 Expectations for the End of Times in Kievan Rus’

2 Topography of the Evil Forces before the End of Times: European Dimensions

2.1 The Question of the Sources

2.2 Genealogy of Some of the Topoi

2.3 Later Development of the Topos of the Direction of the Evil Forces’ Invasions in the 10th–12th Centuries

3 Bulgarian Dimensions of the Anticipation of the End of Times: Texts. Contexts. Real Places and Symbolic Topoi

3.1 Danube Bulgaria: ‘Texts’ of Word and Image

3.2 Topography and Names of the Evil Forces before the End of Times in the Notions of the Danube Bulgarians

3.3 Beginning and End of Tsardom: Bulgarian ‘Responses’ to the Expectation of the End of Times

Conclusion

Bibliography

Illustrations

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tsvetelin Stepanov, D.Sc. (2015), St Kliment Ohridski University, is Professor in Medieval History and Culture. He has published monographs and articles on Bulgaria, the ‘Steppe Empire’, and Byzantium, including The Bulgars and the Steppe Empire in the Early Middle Ages (Brill, 2010).