The Year 1000
Subtitle: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781403960290
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Philosophy of religion; Social history; World history: c 500 to C 1500; One thousand, A.D; History: World; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; World - General; Prophecy; History; Medieval; Religion / History; Eleventh century; Europe; Millennialism
First sentence: For historians the year 1000 is usually of interest for one of two reasons: either it serves as a shorthand designation for the debate over la mutation de l'an mil, the argument that the turn of the eleventh century signaled a drastic and dynamic period of social and economic change (or else a slow adjustment to a process of change already substantially underway), or that it served as a focal point for the current stage of the old debate as to whether it did or did not witness widespread concern-even terrors-about the end of the world.