Jay Rubenstein

Nebuchadnezzar's Dream

The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jay Rubenstein's Nebuchadnezzar's Dream explores how the Crusades reoriented how the Medieval world conceived itself and biblical prophecy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780190274207
• ISBN-10: 0190274204
• Artikelnr.: 53935084

Autorenporträt

Jay Rubenstein is Riggsby Director of the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of Figures
List of Tables
PART 1: PROPHECY AND THE FIRST CRUSADE
Chapter 1: Nebuchadnezzar's Dream, 600 B.C.E.
Chapter 2: Nebuchadnezzar's Dream, 1106 C.E.
Chapter 3: Building Blocks for the Apocalypse
Chapter 4: The Oncoming Madness of Antichrist
Chapter 5: Sacred Geography
PART 2: WARNING SIGNS
Chapter 6: Crusaders Behaving Badly
Chapter 7: Troubling News from the East
PART 3: PROPHECY REVISED
Chapter 8: Wonderworker of the Second Crusade
Chapter 9: Translatio imperii: Leaving Jerusalem
Chapter 10: Apocalypse Begins at Home
PART 4: THE NEW IRON KINGDOM
Chapter 11: Jerusalem Lost
Chapter 12: Prophet of the Third Crusade
Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements