A Beautiful Ending – The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern

Name: A Beautiful Ending – The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern
Brand: Yale University Press

Yale University Press

A Beautiful EndingThe Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World\nAuthor(s): John Jeffries Martin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300247329, 978-0300247329\nSynopsis\nAn award-winning historians revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations\nA masterful synthesis of the prognostications of faith, knowledge, and politics on a global stage. Martins book illuminates one of the enduring themes that shaped the medieval and early modern [url] E. Findlen, Stanford University\n In this revelatory immersion into the apocalyptic, messianic, and millenarian ideas and movements that created the modern world, John Jeffries Martin performs a kind of empathic time travel, entering into the psyche, spirituality, and temporalities of a cast of historical actors in profound moments of discovery. He argues that .