The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages / Edition 1

by Norman Cohn

Overview

This fascinating book explores the millenarianism that flourished in Western Europe between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195004564
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	01/28/1970
Series:	I, Target
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 5.31(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Norman Cohn held the Astor-Wolfson Chair at the University of Sussex until his retirement in 1980. He is the author of Warrant for Genocide, for which he received the Anisfield Wolf Award in Race Relations.

Editorial Reviews

"Cohn uncovers interesting historical connections between millennial ideas and their use in furthering revolutionary movements started by the engine of social unrest."--The Catholic World

"Cohn's book is even more relevant today. He has added a conclusion relating [these movements in medieval Europe] to the contemporary scene....The mirage of a secularized millennium now appeals, he considers, both to the 'disoriented and desperate' in underdeveloped countries, and to an equally disoriented minority on the fringes of the social democratic state."--Times Literary Supplement

"A work of the first water...of great originality and power."--Sir Isaiah Berlin, Twentieth Century

"As valuable as it is interesting...full of historical facts which are passed over in silence in most histories."--Bertrand Russell

"Now we can understand the origins of twentieth century idiologies."--Dr. Wayne Allen, Delta State University

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