Matthew GabrieleJames T. Palmer - Apocalypse and Reform From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

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Names: Gabriele, Matthew, editor. | Palmer, James T. (James Trevor), editor.

Title: Apocalypse and reform from late antiquity to the Middle Ages / edited

by Matthew Gabriele and James T. Palmer.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018003453| ISBN 9781138684027 (hardback : alk. paper) |

ISBN 9781138684041 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780429488948 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Civilization, Medieval. | End of the world History of

Doctrines Middle Ages, 6001500. | Eschatology History of Doctrines

Middle Ages, 6001500.

Classification: LCC CB353 .A66 2018 BT877 | DDC 909.07 dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018003453

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ISBN: 978-0-429-48894-8 (ebk)

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Elizabeth Boyle is Head of the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University. She has published widely on medieval Irish religious, intellectual and literary history.

Miriam Czock is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. She is the author of works on concepts of space and time in the Carolingian age.

Peter Darby is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Nottingham. His publications include Bede and the End of Time (2012) and, with Faith Wallis, the collection Bede and Future (2013).

Helen Foxhall Forbes is an associate professor of Early Medieval History at Durham University. Her research explores the history of ideas, religion and intellectual culture in Britain and Western Europe in the early and central Middle Ages. She has published Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England: Theology and Society in an Age of Faith (2013).

Matthew Gabriele is a professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of Religion & Culture at Virginia Tech. His first book was An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade (2011) and he has edited volumes on medieval empire, the Charlemagne legend, apocalypticism and Jewish-Christian relations.

Jehangir Yezdi Malegam is Associate Professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA. He is the author of The Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 10001200 (2013).

James T. Palmer is Reader in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews. He works on early medieval religious and intellectual cultures, particularly sciences, hagiography, interactions between religious group and historiography. His publications include The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages (2014) and Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World (2009).

Levi Roach is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Exeter and author of Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England (2013) and thelred the Unready (2016). He is presently working on a book on forgery and memory in the late tenth century.

Jay Rubenstein is the Riggsby Director of the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. His publications include Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind (2002) and Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse (2011).

Immo Warntjes is Ussher Assistant Professor for Early Medieval Irish History at Trinity College Dublin. His main research interest is early medieval scientific thought, but he also works on other aspects of the early Middle Ages, including the Easter controversy, kingship and languages, as well as high and late medieval burial practices.

Veronika Wieser is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Vienna and postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has published on eschatology, ascetic communities and historiography in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. She is especially interested in cross-cultural perspectives on the End of Time and she is currently preparing two collected volumes on this topic.