The Pursuit of the Millennium - Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

Informationen zum Autor Norman Cohn was born in London in 1915 and educated at Gresham's School and Christ Church, Oxford. Scholar and research scholar at Christ Church between 1933 and 1939, after the war he taught in universities in England, Scotland, Ireland, America and Canada. In 1966 he became a Professorial Fellow in the University of Sussex and director of an international research project on the preconditions for persecutions and genocides. From 1973 to 1980 he was Astor-Wolfson Professor at Sussex and is now Professor Emeritus. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the author of Warrant for Genocide, The Pursuit of the Millennium and Europe's Inner Demons . Norman Cohn died in 2007. Klappentext The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. Drawing on a huge variety of contemporary sources! this unique and compelling book tells the story of those Millenarian fanaticisms of the Middle Ages and points to their persistence in the modern world. Zusammenfassung The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. Drawing on a huge variety of contemporary sources, this unique and compelling book tells the story of those Millenarian fanaticisms of the Middle Ages and points to their persistence in the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Cohn
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.1993
• EAN: 9780712656641
• ISBN: 978-0-7126-5664-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book; Europe, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Cults, Theology, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Christian and quasi-Christian cults and sects