At 02:54 PM 12/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/20/00 2:01:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
>writes:
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> > >But for a good popular book on millenial expectations, see Norman
> > >Cohen, The Pursuit of the Millenium. He taught history, I believe at
> SUNY.
> >
> > he's english. he is the pathbreaker in looking at popular millennial
> movts
> > in the MA, but missed 1000 entirely. no mention of either the apostolic
> > heresies of the day, nor of the pilgrimages and the peace of god.
> >
>I've heard him speak and so far as I know he's American (sure sounded like
>another New Yawker). I don't believe he's the same Norman Cohen who wrote
>about the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (and who might be English).
norman cohn (no e) wrote three books on interrelated topics: Pursuit of the
millennium; Warrant for Genocide (on the Protocols), and Europe's Inner
Demons (witchcraft craze). he's definitely english and at this point in
his late 80s.
>On popular millennial movements, Gombrich was writing about them long ago.
got a reference. i never suspected.
r
>pat
Richard Landes
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