Paradise Postponed

1. Introduction.- One. Speculum mundi, sive harmonia trium voluminum: the hermetic pre-history of Alsted’s millenarianism, 1610–24.- 2. Volumen historicum seu experimentalis: encyclopedic chronology.- 3. Volumen coelestis sive astrologicum: astrological history.- 4. Volumen biblicus seu propheticus: prophetic numerology.- Two. Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis: the origins of Alsted’s millenarianism, 1619–27.- 5. The Thirty Years War and Alsted’s eschatological crisis, 1619–25.- 6. The sources of the Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis.- 7. Conclusions.- i. Johannes Piscator, ‘Meditatio de mille annis quorum fit mentio Apoc. 20 v. 2 quarum fit mentio apoc. 20. v. 2, et deinque nee non de resurrectione prima cujus fit mentio v. 5. et 6.’,.- ii. Christoph Besold, ‘De Hebraeorum ad Christum salvatorem nostrum conversione conjectanea’,.- Select Bibliography.