Apocalypse Now

Damien Tricoire is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Trier University, Germany, and Associate Member of the Center Roland Mousnier (Sorbonne/CNRS). His research concentrates on the religious, intellectual, informational and social underpinnings of political order, projects, conflicts and revolutions in the European and colonial world from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Lionel Laborie is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at the Institute for History, Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research concentrates on the cultural history of ideas and beliefs in early modern Europe, with a particular interest in religious dissenters, transnational networks, radicalism and tolerance in the ‘long’ eighteenth century.

Introduction / 1. Táborite Revolutionary Apocalypticism: Mapping Influences and Divergences / 2. Heretical Eschatology and Its Impact on Radical Reformation Movements: The Flagellants of Thuringia in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Thomas Müntzer, and the Anabaptists / 3. Terror, War and Reformation: Ivan the Terrible in the Age of Apocalypticism / 4. A Messiah from the Left Side / 5. Millenarian News and Connected Spaces in 17th-Century Europe / 6. Carvajal and the Franciscans: Jewish-Christian Eschatological Expectations in a New World Setting / 7. Kabbalistic Influences on "Pietistic" Millenarian Expectations: Philipp Jakob Spener’s (1635–1705) Eschatological View Between Scripture and Christian Kabbalah / 8. Everyday Apocalypse: Russian and Jewish "Sects" at the End of the Eighteenth Century / 9. Margins of the Encubierto: The Messianic Kings’ Tradition in the Iberian World (15th–17th Centuries) / 10. Mirror Images: Imperial Eschatology and Interreligious Transfer in Seventeenth-Century Greek Orthodoxy / 11. Restorers of the Divine Law: Native American Revolts in the New World, Christianity, and the Quest for Purity in the Age of Revolution