The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature

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During the Middle Ages, the Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation, was believed to contain both the grand design of sacred history and the disguised history of the present and future. In The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature, Richard K. Emerson and Ronald B. Herzman explore the pervasiveness of apocalypticism in medieval literature through close readings of a group of major text not generally considered from an apocalyptic perspective. [Front Cover Flap]

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1992

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Christianity

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