The apocalyptic year 1000
Subtitle: religious expectation and social change, 950-1050
By: edited by Richard Landes, Andrew Gow, and David C. Van Meter.
Contributors: Landes, Richard Allen.; Gow, Andrew Colin.; Van Meter, David C.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Second Advent -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses; Christianity and culture -- Europe -- Congresses; One thousand, A.D. -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: The essays in this volume challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. They should provoke new interest in and debate on the nature and causes of social change in early medieval Europe.
Notes: Papers delivered at a conference held at the end of 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.