Beautiful Ending - The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World

In this immersion into the apocalyptic, messianic, and millenarian ideas of the early modern world, John Jeffries Martin argues that religious faith?Christian, Jewish, and Muslim?did not oppose but rather fostered the making of modernity, buoyed along by a providential view of history, and conviction in the coming End of the World.

About the author

John Jeffries Martin is professor and former chair of the Department of History at Duke University. His books include Venice's Hidden Enemies and Myths of Renaissance Individualism. He lives in Hillsborough, NC.

Summary

An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations

Product details

• Authors: John J Martin, John Jeffries Martin
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780300247329
• ISBN: 978-0-300-24732-9
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Europe, European History, SCIENCE / History, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Religion & Science, History of Science, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Religion and science, Religion & science, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance