Contents
Cultures of Eschatology, volume 1
Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic
and Buddhist Communities
Veronika Wieser, Vincent Eltschinger and Johann Heiss
Preface and Acknowledgments XI
Notes on Contributors, volume 1 XIII
Veronika Wieser and Vincent Eltschinger
Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Cultures of Eschatology 1
Literary and Visual Traditions
Guy Lobrichon
Making Ends Meet: Western Eschatologies, or the Future of a Society (9th–12th
Centuries). Addition of Individual Projects, or Collective Construction of a Radiant
Dawn? 25
Uta Heil
Apocalyptic Literature – A Never-Ending Story 45
Sebastian Günther
“When the Sun is Shrouded in Darkness and the Stars are Dimmed”
(Qurʾan 81:1–2). Imagery, Rhetoric and Doctrinal Instruction in Muslim Apocalyptic
Literature 66
Armin Bergmeier
Volatile Images: The Empty Throne and its Place in the Byzantine Last Judgment
Iconography 84
Appendix 106
Vincent Eltschinger
On some Buddhist Uses of the kaliyuga 123
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Scriptural Traditions and their Reinterpretations
Michael Sommer
Choices – The Use of Textual Authorities in the Revelation of John 165
Johannes van Oort
Manichaean Eschatology: Gnostic-Christian Thinking about Last Things 181
Cinzia Grifoni and Clemens Gantner
The Third Latin Recension of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius – Introduction
and Edition 194
Appendix: Cinzia Grifoni, cur., Pseudo-Methodius’ Revelationes in the so-called
Third Latin Recension 233
Matthias Däumer
Eschatological Relativity. On the Scriptural Undermining of Apocalypses in Jewish
Second Temple, Late Antique and Medieval Receptions of the Book of
Watchers 254
Empires and Last Days 1
Philippe Buc
Eschatologies of the Sword, Compared: Latin Christianity, Islam(s), and Japanese
Buddhism 277
Stephen Shoemaker
The Portents of the Hour: Eschatology and Empire in the Early Islamic
Tradition 294
Ann Christys
The History of Ibn Ḥabīb: al-Andalus in the Last Days 319
James T. Palmer
Apocalyptic Insiders? Identity and Heresy in Early Medieval Iberia and
Francia 337
Contents VII
Apocalyptic Cosmologies and End Time Actors
Zsóka Gelle
Treasure Texts on the Age of Decline: Prophecies Concerning the Hidden Land of
Yolmo, their Reception and Impact 359
Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
Gog and Magog Crossing Borders: Biblical, Christian and Islamic
Imaginings 390
Johann Heiss and Eirik Hovden
Zaydī Theology Popularised: A Hailstorm Hitting the Heterodox 415
Elena Tealdi
Political Propheticism. John of Rupescissa’s Figure of the End Times Emperor and
its Evolution 441
VIII Contents
Cultures of Eschatology, volume 2
Time, Death and Afterlife in Medieval Christian, Islamic and
Buddhist Communities
Veronika Wieser, Vincent Eltschinger and Johann Heiss
Notes on Contributors, volume 2 IX
Death and Last Judgment
Roberto Tottoli
Death and Eschatological Beliefs in the Lives of the Prophets according to
Islam 467
Pia Lucas
Scattered Bones and Miracles – The Cult of Saints, the Resurrection of the Body
and Eschatological Thought in the Works of Gregory of Tours 479
Miriam Czock
Arguing for Improvement: The Last Judgment, Time and the Future in Dhuoda’s
Liber manualis 509
Bernhard Scheid
Death and Pollution as a Common Matrix of Japanese Buddhism and
Shintō 528
Afterlife and Otherworld Empires
Marilyn Dunn
Apocalypse Now? Body, Soul and Judgment in the Christianisation of the
Anglo-Saxons 549
Frederick Shih-Chung Chen
The Evolution of the Buddhist Otherworld Empire in Early Medieval China 578
Eirini Afentoulidou
Space and Power in Byzantine Accounts of the Aerial Tollhouses 603
Contents IX
Marc Tiefenauer
The End of the End: Devotion as an Antidote to Hell 616
Empires and Last Days 2
Johann Heiss
The Multiple Uses of an Enemy: Gog, Magog and the “Two-Horned One” 631
Immo Warntjes
A.D. 672 – The Apex of Apocalyptic Thought in the Early Medieval Latin
West? 642
Graeme Ward
Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius’ Histories Against the Pagans
in the Carolingian World 674
Rutger Kramer
The Bede Goes On: Pastoral Eschatology in the Prologue to the Chronicle of
Moissac (Paris BN lat. 4886) 698
The Afterlife of Eschatology
Kurt Appel
The Testament of Time – The Apocalypse of John and the recapitulatio of Time
according to Giorgio Agamben 733
Martin Treml
Eschatology as Occidental Lebensform: The Case of Jacob Taubes 759
Christian Zolles
History beyond the Ken: Towards a Critical Historiography of Apocalyptic Politics
with Jacob Taubes and Michel Foucault 783
Index
Proper Names 817
Geographical Names and Toponyms 829
