The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Subtitle: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780521461351
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; History of medicine; Social history; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Four Horsemen of the Apocalyps; Christianity - History - General; Reformation; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Europe - General; Europe--History--1517-1648; History / Europe / General; Apocalyptic literature; General; 1517-1648; History; History and criticism
First sentence: More than any other period of European history the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were characterised by apocalyptic expectations, eschatological speculations and millenarian dreams.