Book contents
- Martin Luther in Context
- Martin Luther in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Education
- Part II Religious and Intellectual Context
- Part III Social and Cultural Context
- 14 The Holy Roman Empire
- 15 The Imperial Diet in the 1520s
- 16 The German Peasants’ War
- 17 Origins of the Schmalkaldic League
- 18 The Turks
- 19 Women and Gender
- 20 Apocalypticism in the Sixteenth Century
- 21 Jews and Judaism
- 22 Luther’s Artists
- 23 Persecution, Martyrdom, and Flight in Luther’s Europe
- Part IV People
- Part V Themes in Luther’s Thought
- Part VI Works
- Part VII Reception
- Index
- References
20 - Apocalypticism in the Sixteenth Century
from Part III - Social and Cultural Context
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Book contents
- Martin Luther in Context
- Martin Luther in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Education
- Part II Religious and Intellectual Context
- Part III Social and Cultural Context
- 14 The Holy Roman Empire
- 15 The Imperial Diet in the 1520s
- 16 The German Peasants’ War
- 17 Origins of the Schmalkaldic League
- 18 The Turks
- 19 Women and Gender
- 20 Apocalypticism in the Sixteenth Century
- 21 Jews and Judaism
- 22 Luther’s Artists
- 23 Persecution, Martyrdom, and Flight in Luther’s Europe
- Part IV People
- Part V Themes in Luther’s Thought
- Part VI Works
- Part VII Reception
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Martin Luther in Context , pp. 170 - 178Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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Further Reading
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Barnes, Robin. Prophecy and Gnosis: Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.Google Scholar
Bradstock, Andrew. “The Significance of Apocalyptic Ideas in the Thought of Thomas Müntzer.” Master’s thesis, University of Otago, 1992.Google Scholar
Buck, Lawrence P. The Roman Monster: An Icon of the Papal Antichrist in Reformation Polemics. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Cunningham, Andrew, and Grell, Ole Peter. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine, and Death in Reformation Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Deppermann, Klaus. Melchior Hoffman: Social Unrest and Apocalyptic Visions in the Age of Reformation. Translated by Wren, Malcom. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1987.Google Scholar
Groll, Karin. Das “Passional Christi und Antichristi” von Lucas Cranach d. Ä. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.Google Scholar
McGinn, Bernard. Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994.Google Scholar
Soergel, Philip M. Miracles and the Protestant Imagination: The Evangelical Wonder Book in Reformation Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stayer, James M. “The Münsterite Rationalization of Bernhard Rothmann.” Journal of the History of Ideas 28, no. 2 (1967): 179–192.CrossRefGoogle Scholar