Chapter 1 A Strange Prognostication
Chapter 2 A Seditious Prophecy
The Strange Prophecy of Wilhelm Friess
Chapter 3 From Avignon to Antwerp and from Antwerp to Nuremberg
From Avignon to Antwerp: Johannes de Rupescissa and “Wilhelm Friess”
Chapter 4 From Protest to Propaganda
The Restless Ghost of “Wilhelm Friess”
“Wilhelm Friess” in Antwerp and Lübeck, 1566–68
Chapter 5 A Horrible and Shocking Prophecy
The Appalling Accuracy of “Wilhelm Friess”
The Horrible and Shocking Prophecy of Wilhelm Friess
The Textual History of Wilhelm Friess’s Second Prophecy
1639: The Earliest and Latest Wilhelm Freiss
Chapter 6 “Wilhelm Friess in Strasbourg
The Home of Wilhelm Friess’s Second Prophecy: Sources and Templates
Strasbourg and Sacraments: The Religious Home of “Friess II”
The Geopolitics of “Friess II”
Johann Fischart, Author of the Second Prophecy of Wilhelm Friess?
Chapter 7 The Last Emperor and the Beginning of Prophecy
The Long Afterlife of “Wilhelm Friess”
Appendix 1 The First Prophecy of Wilhelm Friess
Appendix 2 The Second Prophecy of Wilhelm Friess