The Wolf Cries: Apocalyptic Warnings

• Apocalyptic: The Sermon of the Wolf to the English
• Millenial: Ralph Glaber
• Defining Terms: Glossary, Center for Millenial Studies

Visions of History: Christianity's First Millenium

• Early Medieval Christian Historiography
  • out of this world: persecution, martyrdom, and the prophetic spirit Perpetua
  • in the world: conversion and adaptation. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Conversion of Constantine
  • life as pilgrimage: Augustine, The Two Cities
  • shaping time:
    • world, ecclesiastical, and ethnic histories (Eusebius, Orosius, Gregory of Tours, Bede)
    • counting time: calendars, chronicles, and annalistic history
    • chronology and computus: Bede, The Six Ages of this World (plus 2)
    • The Apocalyptic Dossier
• Modern Historiography: The Year 1000
  • Richard Landes, Giants with Feet of Clay
  • 19th century Romanticism: panic
  • circa 1901: reason prevailed
  • postmodern: owls and roosters

Crying Wolf: Owl Voices?

• The Sermon of the Wolf to the English
• Ralph Glaber
• medievalisms
  • progress models: otherness and roots
  • the terrifying prospect of postmodernism
  • relevance: CMS Bibliography

Links:

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Center for Millenial Studies