Apr
26
2024
Free Download Matthew Gabriele, "Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: The Burden of Sacred Time and the Making of History in Early Medieval Europe"
English | ISBN: 0199642559 | 2024 | 160 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The tenth and eleventh centuries in medieval Europe are commonly seen as a time of uncertainty and loss: an age of lawless aristocrats, of weak political authority, of cultural decline and dissolute monks, and of rampant superstition. It is a period often judged from its margins, compared (mostly negatively) to what came before and what would follow. We impose upon it both a sense of nostalgia and a teleology, as they somehow knowingly foreshadow what is to come.