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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Significance of Dying and the Afterlife
Settling Scores: Eschatology in the Church of the Martyrs
The Decline of the Empire of God: Amnesty, Penance, and the Afterlife from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
From Jericho to Jerusalem: The Violent Transformation of Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne
From Decay to Splendor: Body and Pain in Bonvesin da la Riva’s Book of the Three Scriptures
Part II: Apocalyptic Time
Time Is Short: The Eschatology of the Early Gaelic Church
Exodus and Exile: Joachim of Fiore’s Apocalyptic Scenario
Arnau de Vilanova and the Body at the End of the World
Of Earthquakes, Hail, Frogs, and Geography: Plague and the Investigation of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages
Part III: The Eschatological Imagination
Community Among the Saintly Dead: Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermons for the Feast of All Saints
Heaven in View: The Place of the Elect in an Illuminated Book of Hours
The Limits of Apocalypse: Eschatology, Epistemology, and Textuality in the Commedia and Piers Plowman
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
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