Medievalists.net » Eschatology http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 ‘Falseness Reigns in Every Flock’: Literacy and Eschatological Discourse in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/falseness-reigns-every-flock-literacy-eschatological-discourse-peasants-revolt-1381/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/falseness-reigns-every-flock-literacy-eschatological-discourse-peasants-revolt-1381/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:27:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54514 The literature of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, a miscellany of fourteenth-century poetry and prose penned before, during, and after the insurrection, often stresses the importance of literacy to the nonaristocratic population of England.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/falseness-reigns-every-flock-literacy-eschatological-discourse-peasants-revolt-1381/feed/ 0 Nourishment for the Soul – Nourishment for the Body: Animal Remains in Early Medieval Pomeranian Cemeteries http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/25/nourishment-soul-nourishment-body-animal-remains-early-medieval-pomeranian-cementeries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/25/nourishment-soul-nourishment-body-animal-remains-early-medieval-pomeranian-cementeries/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:39:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54393 Late medieval sources clearly refer to souls, which in traditional folk beliefs were periodically returning to feed and warm themselves by the fires made by the living. This kind of conception can be merged with Slavic eschatology. There is multiple evidence to confirm that belief some form of spirit or soul was spreading amongst the people, who in the early medieval period, bordered directly with Pomerania.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/25/nourishment-soul-nourishment-body-animal-remains-early-medieval-pomeranian-cementeries/feed/ 0 Bede’s Temple as History http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/28/bedes-temple-history/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/28/bedes-temple-history/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:13:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53699 Another IHR paper, this time, a talk given about Bede’s writing and his interest in the image of the Temple and its relation to Christianity. This paper also examined how Bede’s views shifted over time. How did Bede view Judaism? Was he truly ambivalent?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/13/jewish-shock-troops-apocalypse/feed/ 0 Death and Retribution: Medieval Visions of the End of Judas the Traitor http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/23/death-and-retribution-medieval-visions-of-the-end-of-judas-the-traitor/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/23/death-and-retribution-medieval-visions-of-the-end-of-judas-the-traitor/#comments Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:44:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43806 Although being described in the Book of Job as "the land of gloom and chaos" ("terra ubi umbra mortis et nullus ordo" Iob 10:22), Hell for Christian tradition was not a region of disorder and chaos, but a realm of well ordered justice.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/23/death-and-retribution-medieval-visions-of-the-end-of-judas-the-traitor/feed/ 0 The Final Countdown: A Historiographical Analysis on Language in the Year 1000 A.D. http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/15/the-final-countdown-a-historiographical-analysis-on-language-in-the-year-1000-a-d/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/15/the-final-countdown-a-historiographical-analysis-on-language-in-the-year-1000-a-d/#comments Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:10:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42869 We must now begin to ask ourselves what led to this increase in millenarian belief that the world would end between either 1000-1033 A.D.; 1033 being the 1000th year anniversary of the death of Christ. From the evidence provided in the first hand accounts of religious figures in the early eleventh century, it can be argued that this millenarian idea was not uncommon throughout Europe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/15/the-final-countdown-a-historiographical-analysis-on-language-in-the-year-1000-a-d/feed/ 0 Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist’s Perspective http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/04/why-all-the-fuss-about-the-body-a-medievalists-perspective/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/04/why-all-the-fuss-about-the-body-a-medievalists-perspective/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 01:07:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31537 erhaps some help is to be found in the usual scholarly move of sur- veying the literature. What does the phrase mean in the rapidly increas- ing number of books with the body in the title-an increase only too apparent to anyone who walks these days into a bookstore?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/04/why-all-the-fuss-about-the-body-a-medievalists-perspective/feed/ 0 Jerusalem in Medieval Christian Thought http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/29/jerusalem-in-medieval-christian-thought/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/29/jerusalem-in-medieval-christian-thought/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:21:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31392 In the prophetic tradition, the dwelling of God is understood as a spiritual one. Yet, in spite of the expressed manner in which Jerusalem was called The Holy City, an element of imperfection remained.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/29/jerusalem-in-medieval-christian-thought/feed/ 0 Sin, Penance and Purgatory in the Anglo‐Norman Realm: The Evidence of Visions and Ghost Stories http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/sin-penance-and-purgatory-in-the-anglo%e2%80%90norman-realm-the-evidence-of-visions-and-ghost-stories/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/sin-penance-and-purgatory-in-the-anglo%e2%80%90norman-realm-the-evidence-of-visions-and-ghost-stories/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:01:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31223 Historians have tended to explore these two changes of the ‘long twelfth century’ — the reinvention of penance and the rise of purgatory — in isolation from each other. Here I intend to focus on the relationship between the two, and to look in particular at one aspect of it: the implications of theological change for perceptions of the fate of the dead.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/sin-penance-and-purgatory-in-the-anglo%e2%80%90norman-realm-the-evidence-of-visions-and-ghost-stories/feed/ 0 Painful Restoration: Transformations of Life and Death in Medieval Visions of the Other World http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/12/painful-restoration-transformations-of-life-and-death-in-medieval-visions-of-the-other-world/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/12/painful-restoration-transformations-of-life-and-death-in-medieval-visions-of-the-other-world/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:25:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30099 Bearing in mind this distinction, we must be aware of the fact that, in the context of the Christian religion, we are dealing with the fundamental concept of a double life—the life of the body and the life of the soul; and consequently with a double death—the death of the body and the death of the soul.

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