Early Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourses : Coping with Crises in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries /
The Byzantine Empire faced many threats, but few were as great as the events of the sixth and seventh centuries, when paranoia, plagues, and wars threatened to tear the empire apart. Like today, prophets predicted horrors to come while preachers called on their congregations to repent. This book con...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
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Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages ;
32.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
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Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 1 Setting the Scene
- 2 Methodology
- 3 Late-Antique and Seventh-Century Literature
- 4 Apocalyptic Literature and Discourse
- 5 Scholarship on the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
- 6 Conclusion
- 2 Sixth-Century Crises
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Year 6000
- 3 Apocalyptic Continuations
- 4 Disasters and Riots
- 5 The Plague of Justinian
- 6 Procopius and Justinian
- 7 Conclusion
- 3 The Emperor: Messianic Hero or Antichrist?
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Heroic Emperors
- 3 The Emperor as Adversary
- 4 Conclusion
- 4 Remaining Steadfast: Apostasy and Identity
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Identity: a Fraught Subject
- 3 Narrativity and Social Identity
- 4 Sources
- 5 Adversus Judaeos Literature
- 6 Apostasy in Apocalyptic Discourse
- 7 Conclusion
- 5 Monsters in Our Midst: Dehumanising the Enemy
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Dehumanisation
- 3 Sources
- 4 Imperial Dehumanisation
- 5 Dehumanisation of the Persians
- 6 Dehumanisation of Islamic Invaders
- 7 Gog and Magog
- 8 Conclusion
- 6 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.