TY  - GEN
N2  - Even within the sensational genre of eschatological prophecy, the prophecies of the late medieval Empire stand out as strikingly bitter and violent texts. They foresee the savage chastisement of the clergy, the murder of clerics, and the forceful restructuring of the Church. But they also infuse the apocalyptic narrative with explicitly German elements. German speakers are frequently cast as the agents of these stirring events, in which the clergy suffer tribulations and the Church hierarchy is torn down. Thus the central argument of this book is that popular German prophecies encouraged a vision of members of the Empire as the ordained reformers of Christendom at the end of time.
DO  - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190279363
DO  - doi
AB  - Even within the sensational genre of eschatological prophecy, the prophecies of the late medieval Empire stand out as strikingly bitter and violent texts. They foresee the savage chastisement of the clergy, the murder of clerics, and the forceful restructuring of the Church. But they also infuse the apocalyptic narrative with explicitly German elements. German speakers are frequently cast as the agents of these stirring events, in which the clergy suffer tribulations and the Church hierarchy is torn down. Thus the central argument of this book is that popular German prophecies encouraged a vision of members of the Empire as the ordained reformers of Christendom at the end of time.
T1  - The empire at the end of timeidentity and reform in late medieval German prophecy /
AU  - Kneupper, Frances Courtney,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - BT819.5
ID  - 757211
KW  - Eschatology
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Group identity
SN  - 9780190279387
TI  - The empire at the end of timeidentity and reform in late medieval German prophecy /
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