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
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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
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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