medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
"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?
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?
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.
Cheers,
Rod McCaslin
--- John Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval
> religion and culture
>
> Martin Howley wrote:
> > On Mar 27, 2006, at 7:26 PM, John Briggs wrote:
> >>
> >> You know, it is probably a good idea not to get
> to caught up in the
> >> phenomena one is supposed to be studying. I
> shall now be unable to sleep
> >> for trying to retrieve a half-forgotten quotation
> about scholars getting
> >> infected by the madness they were describing.
> >
> > Could you possibly be referring here to
> "bongo-bongoism" -
> > ("the tendency to overvalue the objects of one's
> own inquiries")? :)
>
> No, it's worse than that. The quotation I am trying
> to remember is something
> along the lines of: "a tendency like those who study
> the Spanish [regency,
> succession? something 19th century] ... or ... to
> become infected by the
> kind of madness they are seeking to describe".
>
> 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 -
> unless someone did something apocalyptic, of
> course...
>
> John Briggs
>
>
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Rod McCaslin
Teacher,World and European History, Centennial High School
Ellicott City, Maryland
Graduate Student UMBC
Historian, St. Andrews Society of Baltimore
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