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003			OCoLC
005			20221010073004.0
008			700528s1970 nyuac b 001 0 eng
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020			_a0195004566
020			_a9780195004564
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020			_a9780195994568
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050	0		_aBR270 _b.C6 1970b
082			_222 _a270.5
100	1		_aCohn, Norman, _d1915-2007.
245	1	4	_aThe pursuit of the millennium : _brevolutionary millenarians and mystical anarchists of the Middle Ages / _cNorman Cohn.
250			_aRev. and expanded ed.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1970.
300			_a412 p. : _bill., port. ; _c24 cm.
500			_ainclude index
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 372-399) and index.
505	0		_aForeword -- Introduction: the scope of this book -- 1. The tradition of apocalyptic prophecy -- Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic -- The apocalyptic tradition in medieval Europe -- 2. The tradition of religious dissent -- The ideal of the apostolic life -- Some early messiahs -- 3. The Messianism of the disoriented poor -- The impact of rapid social change -- The poor in the first crusades -- 4. The saints against the hosts of Antichrist -- Saviours in the Last Days -- The demonic hosts -- Phantasy, anxiety, and social myth -- 5. In the backwash of the Crusades -- The Pseudo-Baldwin and the "Master of Hungary" -- The last crusades of the poor -- 6. The Emperor Frederick as messiah -- Joachite prophecy and Frederick II -- The resurrection of Frederick -- Manifestoes for a future Frederick -- 7. An elite of self-immolating redeemers -- The genesis of the flagellant movement -- Revolutionary flagellants -- The secret flagellants of Thuringia -- 8. An elite of amoral supermen (I) -- The heresy of the Free Spirit -- The Amaurians -- The sociology of the Free Spirit -- 9. An elite of amoral supermen (II) -- The spread of the movement -- The way to self-deification -- The doctrine of mystical anarchism -- 10. The egalitarian state of nature -- In the thought of antiquity -- In patristic and medieval thought -- 11. The egalitarian millennium (I) -- Marginalia to the English Peasants' Revolt -- The Taborite Apocalypse -- Anarcho-communism in Bohemia -- 12. The egalitarian millennium (II) -- The drummer of Niklashausen -- Thomas M©ơntzer -- 13. The egalitarian millennium (III) -- Anabaptism and social unrest -- M©ơnster as the New Jerusalem -- The messianic reign of John of Leyden -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The "Free Spirit" in Cromwell's England: the Ranters and their literature.
650		0	_aChurch history _yMiddle Ages, 600-1500.
650		0	_aSects, Medieval.
650		0	_aMillennium (Eschatology) _xHistory of doctrines.
710	2		_aPaul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) _5DLC
942			_2ddc _cBK