The Pursuit Of The Millennium
Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
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- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
30 July 1993
Summary
‘Great learning and an admirably lively style… Professor Cohn’s work throws a flood of light into unexplored corners… A most stimulating book’ Christopher HillThe Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free of suffering and sin - a Kingdom of the Saints. Generation after generation was intermittently seized by a tense expectation of some sudd…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780712656641 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0712656642 |
| Author: | Norman Cohn |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 30 July 1993 |
| Weight: | 432g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 136mm x 34mm |
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About The Author
Norman Cohn
Norman Cohn was born in London in 1915 and educated at Gresham’s School and Christ Church, Oxford. Scholar and research scholar at Christ Church between 1933 and 1939, after the war he taught in universities in England, Scotland, Ireland, America and Canada. In 1966 he became a Professorial Fellow in the University of Sussex and director of an international research project on the preconditions for persecutions and genocides. From 1973 to 1980 he was Astor-Wolfson Professor at Sussex and is now Professor Emeritus. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the author of Warrant for Genocide, The Pursuit of the Millennium and Europe’s Inner Demons. Norman Cohn died in 2007.
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