End(s) of Time(s)

Dr Hans-Christian Lehner (1982) is research fellow of Medieval History at the ICRH in Erlangen. His monograph Prophetie zwischen Eschatologie und Politik (2015) was focusing on prognostics as outlined in medieval historiography. He edited, translated, and annotated the 12th century Visio Tnugdali (with Maximilian Nix, 2018). With Matthias Heiduk and Klaus Herbers he edited the handbook Prognostication in the Middle Ages (2 vols. 2021).

• List of Figures and TablesThe End(s) of Time(s): An IntroductionHans-Christian LehnerPart 1 1 Christian Perspectives on History, Eschatology, and Transcendence in the Latin Christian Middle AgesKlaus Herbers2 Byzantine Predictions of the End of the World in 500, 1000, and 1492 ADWolfram Brandes3 The Great Peace and the Ends of Time in Early Imperial ChinaZhao Lu4 Tibetan Buddhist Dystopian Narratives and their Pedagogical DimensionsRolf Scheuermann5 Ragnarök: Prophecies and Notions of the End Time in Old Norse ReligionThomas Krümpel6 An Overview of Bahá’í Eschatology, in a Tapestry of Five StrandsBernardo Bertholin KerrPart 2 7 Beatus of Liebana and the Spiritualized Understanding of Apocalypse in Medieval IberiaGaelle Bosseman8 Muhammad, Mahdi, Antichrist: Muslims in Joachim of Fiore’s Apocalyptic EschatologyJulia Eva Wannenmacher9 The Infernal Trinity as Passivized Pacemaker of Salvation History: Satan’s Particular Eschatological Activity in Anonymus Bambergensis’ Tracts De semine scripturarum and De principe mundiMatthias KaupPart 3 10 Competing Eschatological Scenarios during the Taiping War, 1851–1864Vincent Goossaert11 The Messianic Quest for an Earthly Paradise in the Modern Era of RevolutionJürgen Gebhardt12 Indigenous Millennialism: Murabitun Sufism in the Black African townships of South AfricaMatthias Gebauer13 Apocalyptic Millennialism: The Most Powerful, Volatile, Imaginary Force in Human HistoryRichard LandesIndex

"The volume’s strength lies more in the excellent quality of most of its individual contributions, which are rather diverse in terms of (theoretical) approaches and disciplines involved." - Lukas K. Pokorny, Religious Studies Review, 22 (2022).