THE APOCALYPSE IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

This groundbreaking study reveals the distinctive impact of apocalyptic ideas about time, evil and power on church and society in th e Latin West, c.400c.1050. Drawing on evidence from late antiquity, the Frankish kingdoms, Anglo-Saxon England, Spain and Byzantium and sociological models, James Palmer shows that apocalyptic thought was a more powerful part of mainstream political ideologies an d religious reform than many historians believe.