medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Andrew Runni Anderson, _Alexander's Gate, Gog and Magog, and the Inclosed
Nations_ (Cambridge, Mass.: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1932;
Monographs of the Mediaeval Academy of America, no. 5), has quotations from
and/or references to well-known sources from the Latin West (e.g., Peter
Comestor, Godfrey of Viterbo, Quilichino of Spoleto) that seem to show that
it was generally thought part of God's plan that these nations would remain
shut up until the Endtime. The exceptions, when they do occur, have to do
with peoples whom Latin Westerners had actually encountered: identified as
being among the enclosed nations, they were then provided with myths
rationalising their "escape(s)". An interim separate providence for the
others was apparently not on the cards, at least not in the standard
historiographical tradition. It would be very interesting to hear of
heterodox views of this matter from the 12th-to-14th-century Latin West.
Best,
John Dillon
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