{"product_id":"between-prophecy-and-apocalypse-the-burden-of-sacred-time-and-the-making-of-history-in-early-medieval-europe-hardcover","title":"Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: The Burden of Sacred Time and the Making of History in Early Medieval Europe - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Gabriele\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tenth and eleventh centuries in medieval Europe are commonly seen as a time of uncertainty and loss: an age of lawless aristocrats, of weak political authority, of cultural decline and dissolute monks, and of rampant superstition. It is a period often judged from its margins, compared (mostly negatively) to what came before and what would follow. We impose upon it both a sense of nostalgia and a teleology, as they somehow knowingly foreshadow what is to come. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeeking to complicate this mischaracterisation, which is primarily the invention of nineteenth and early twentieth century historiography, this book maps the movement between two intellectual stances: a shift from prophetic to apocalyptic thinking. Although the roots of this change lay in Late Antiquity, the fulcrum of this transition lies in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Biblical commentators in the fourth and fifth centuries enforced a particular understanding of sacred time that held until the ninth century, when exegetes of the ninth century found in their commentaries a different plan for God's new chosen people. This came into stark relief as the new kingdom of Israel (the Frankish empire under the Carolingians) had splintered in the 840s. God was manifesting his displeasure with the chosen people by fire and sword. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat was perhaps unforeseen was that these commentaries that were written in the specific context of the Carolingian Civil War would be heavily copied and read for the next 200 years. Ideas that formed in a world that actively lamented the loss of empire had to be translated to a world that could only dream of that empire. As they spread across Europe, these ideas became the basis for monastic educational practices, and bled into other types of textual production, such as supposedly \"secular\" histories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eBetween Prophecy and Apocalypse\u003c\/em\u003e charts an intellectual transformation triggered when the prescriptions laid out towards the end of the Carolingian empire began to be \"realized\" in subsequent centuries. Nostalgia entwined with an attentiveness to possible futures and spun together so tightly as to become a double helix. Ultimately, this book will offer a way to understand the central Middle Ages, a period of dynamic intellectual ferment when ideas could inspire action and (seemingly banal) conceptions of time and history could inspire moments of dramatic transformation and horrific violence.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Gabriele, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Medieval Studies, Virginia Tech\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMatthew Gabriele is a professor of medieval studies at Virginia Tech. He has also been a visiting fellow at Westfälische Wilhelms Üniversität-Münster as well as at the University of St. Andrews, UK. He has published widely (for both academic and wider audiences) on religion, violence, nostalgia, and apocalypse, whether manifested in the European Middle Ages or modern world. Most recently, he co-authored with David M. Perry, \u003cem\u003eThe Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe\u003c\/em\u003e and is working with Perry on \u003cem\u003eOathbreakers: The Carolingian Civil War and the Collapse of an Empire in the Middle Ages\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51747711484192,"sku":"9780199642557","price":80.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/afbd5ad76692a217abea4f0b1dbe66a8.webp?v=1779899556","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/between-prophecy-and-apocalypse-the-burden-of-sacred-time-and-the-making-of-history-in-early-medieval-europe-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}