Table of Contents

Introduction; M.Frassetto Mutations, Adjustments, Terrors, Historians, and the Year One Thousand; E.Peters Exegesis of the Apocalypse in the Early Modern Ages; E.A.Matter Wulfstan and the Millennium; M.P.Richards Harrowing the Houses of the Holy: Images of Violation in Wulfstan's Homilies; N.E.Atkinson & D.E.Burton The Tau Cross in the Writings of Ademar of Chabannes; D.F.Callahan Heretics, Antichrists, and the Year 1000: Apocalyptic Expectations in the Writings of Ademar of Chabannes; M.Frassetto Thietmar of Merseburg: The Image of the Ottonian Bishop; D.A.Warner Otto III, Charlemagne, and Pentecost 1000 AD: A Reconsideration Using Diplomatic Evidence; M.Gabriele Apocalyptic Concerns and Mariological Tactics in 11th Century France; T.J.Wellman A New Fashion in Imitating Christ: Changing Spiritual Perspectives around the Year 1000; P.Jestice The Year 1000 and Those Who Labored; C.Taylor Early Medieval Women, Prophesy and Millennial Expectations; J.T.Schulenburg Islam and the West in the Age of the Pilgrim; D.Blanks

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MICHAEL FRASSETTO is the religion editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He earned his Ph.D. for the University of Delaware, where he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the German Democratic Republic. He is the editor, with David Blanks, of Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Perception of Other, and the author of numerous articles on medieval religion and society.

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