medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Rod McCaslin wrote:
>
> "Studying millennial obsessions must have seemed a
> safe career choice in the 1990s, but there was always
> a danger of people losing interest by 2001"
>
> So, millenialist studies are only of interest when the
> turn of the millennium is a popular concern? The
> historical study of millennialist movements has
> nothing to offer to our understandings in
> the broader study of European or World history?
Nothing helpful, it would seem :-)
> Does this hold true about all historical studies that
> are centered around a particular historical phenomena?
> They are only worthwhile at the time of their
> anniversary?
Don't ask me - try asking publishers.
> As I understood the study- millenarianism,
> apocalypticism, millennialism, chiliasm- were all
> attitudes/movements that really had nothing
> necessarily to do with three zeros at the end of
> a date.
And nothing to do with current events, of course.
John Briggs
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