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The Year 1000

Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium

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  • © 2002

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  1. Michael Frassetto

    1. Encyclopædia Britannica, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Frassetto
    Pages 1-7

  3. Mutations, Adjustments, Terrors, Historians, and the Year 1000

    • Edward Peters
    Pages 9-28

  4. Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages

    • E. Ann Matter
    Pages 29-40

  5. Wulfstan and the Millennium

    • Mary P. Richards
    Pages 41-48

  6. Harrowing the Houses of the Holy: Images of Violation in Wulfstan’s Homilies

    • Nancy E. Atkinson, Dan E. Burton
    Pages 49-62

  7. The Tau Cross in the Writings of Ademar of Chabannes

    • Daniel F. Callahan
    Pages 63-71

  8. Heretics, Antichrists, and the Year 1000: Apocalyptic Expectations in the Writings of Ademar of Chabannes

    • Michael Frassetto
    Pages 73-84

  9. Thietmar of Merseburg: The Image of the Ottonian Bishop

    • David A. Warner
    Pages 85-110

  10. Otto III, Charlemagne, and Pentecost a.d. 1000: A Reconsideration Using Diplomatic Evidence

    • Matthew Gabriele
    Pages 111-132

  11. Apocalyptic Concerns and Mariological Tactics in Eleventh-Century France

    • Tennyson J. Wellman
    Pages 133-163

  12. A New Fashion in Imitating Christ: Changing Spiritual Perspectives around the Year 1000

    • Phyllis G. Jestice
    Pages 165-185

  13. The Year 1000 and Those Who Labored

    • Claire Taylor
    Pages 187-236

  14. Early Medieval Women, Prophecy, and Millennial Expectations

    • Jane T. Schulenburg
    Pages 237-256

  15. Islam and the West in the Age of the Pilgrim

    • David R. Blanks
    Pages 257-271

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 273-278
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About this book

This collection of new essays examines the long-standing question of apocalyptic expectations around the turn of the first millennium. Including works by scholars of medieval history, literature, and religion, this book argues that apocalyptic expectations did exist around the year 1000. It provides a more balanced and nuanced approach to the issue than the traditional views that either identify a time of fear, the 'terrors of the year 1000', or deny that awareness of the millennium existed. This book, instead, recognizes that there were a variety of responses to the eschatological years 1000 and 1033 and that these responses contributed to the broader social and religious developments associated with the birth of European civilization.

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  • Encyclopædia Britannica, USA

    Michael Frassetto

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MICHAEL FRASSETTO is the religion editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He earned his Ph.D. for the University of Delaware, where he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the German Democratic Republic. He is the editor, with David Blanks, of Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Perception of Other, and the author of numerous articles on medieval religion and society.

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