Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe

Israel Sanmartín is Lecturer in Medieval History at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. His main lines of research are the history of medieval eschatology, historiography and theory of history, and neo-medievalism.Francisco Peña Fernández is Professor of World Literatures at the University of British Columbia, and director of the international research project entitled “The Confluence of Religious Cultures in Medieval Historiography: Digital Edition of the General estoria” (DEGE). His main lines of research are Jewish-Christian relations in medieval Iberia, medieval historiography, and the Bible as literature.

• Introduction 1. Interpreting Daniel’s Prophecy And Other Reckonings in Medieval Iberia: Edition and Commentary of a Short Collection 2. Christian Time-Reckoning, the Fall of Rome, and the Coming of the Carolingian Epoch: Disorder in the Skies, saltus lunae, and the End of Times 3. The End of the World Happens Within. The Mystical Eschatology of the Syriac Book of Secrets (6th c.) 4. The First Treatise on Christian Eschatology: The Prognosticon of Julian of Toledo 5. Medieval Eschatology and Invading Peoples in Eastern Slavic and Astur-Leonese Spheres 6. The Apocalyptic Drift of the Story of the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in the General e Grand Estoria 7. Eschatology as a Political Warning in the Libro de Gracián during the Reign of John II of Castile (1405-1454) 8. A Contextual Proposal for the Study of the Debate on the Castilian Rocaçisas 9. Eschatological Memories of the Reign of the Catholic Monarchs in Late Sixteenth-Century Histories of Spain 10. The Antichrist Critique in Jan Hus’s Letter to Christian of Prachatice from 1413 and its Inspiration from John Wyclif 11. Rebels and the Antichrist: The Circulation of Prophecies during the Revolt of the Comuneros