Early Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourses de Ryan W. Strickler

Early Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourses: Coping with Crises in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries: Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, cartea 32

Ryan W. Strickler

The Byzantine Empire faced many threats, but few were as great as the events of the sixth and seventh centuries, when paranoia, plagues, and wars threatened to tear the empire apart. Like today, prophets predicted horrors to come while preachers called on their congregations to repent. This book considers how the Byzantines understood the crises of the period and their role in divine history by reframing their troubles through an apocalyptic lens. While most scholars have interpreted these messages as a prediction of the end, this book argues for a different reading, understanding them instead as messages of hope.

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Ryan W. Strickler, Ph.D. (2019), Macquarie University, is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Newcastle (Australia). He studies identity formation and crisis response in the late Roman and Byzantine world, and recently co-edited Dissidence and Persecution in Byzantium: From Constantine to Michael Psellos (Brill, 2022).

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Contents
Acknowledgements

1 Introduction
1 Setting the Scene
2 Methodology
3 Late-Antique and Seventh-Century Literature
4 Apocalyptic Literature and Discourse
5 Scholarship on the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
6 Conclusion

2 Sixth-Century Crises
1 Introduction
2 The Year 6000
3 Apocalyptic Continuations
4 Disasters and Riots
5 The Plague of Justinian
6 Procopius and Justinian
7 Conclusion

3 The Emperor: Messianic Hero or Antichrist?
1 Introduction
2 Heroic Emperors
3 The Emperor as Adversary
4 Conclusion

4 Remaining Steadfast: Apostasy and Identity
1 Introduction
2 Identity: a Fraught Subject
3 Narrativity and Social Identity
4 Sources
5Adversus Judaeos Literature
6 Apostasy in Apocalyptic Discourse
7 Conclusion

5 Monsters in Our Midst: Dehumanising the Enemy
1 Introduction
2 Dehumanisation
3 Sources
4 Imperial Dehumanisation
5 Dehumanisation of the Persians
6 Dehumanisation of Islamic Invaders
7 Gog and Magog
8 Conclusion

6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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