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1Coessens
Are there more specific books out on the millenium (the year 1000 AD)? Besides the book of Tom Holland "Millenium", and the book "the year 1000". Any book that would give insight into how people in those days lived with and handled the expectation of the year 1000.
2HectorSwell
The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D. and The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and the Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages are on my shelves, but I haven't read them.
3Coessens
"The pursuit of the Millenium" by Cohen you mean? Great book, very insightful. But it spans the whole of milleniarism - ideas,well up to the reformation. The other one is new to me, thanks for sharing.
4nathanielcampbell
There's not a lot out there yet to correct to misinformed popular views that the year 1000 was somehow widely anticipated as "the end of the world". (Especially since the year that actually was anticipated was closer to 1032, i.e. a thousand years after the death and resurrection of Christ. For this, see the background to the First Crusade in Jonathan Riley-Smith's The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading.)
The best (in fact, the only principal one) source for what was happening around 1000 is Rodulfus Glaber and his Historiarum libri quinque, available with a facing-page English translation from Oxford Medieval Texts (on Amazon). I would recommend reading Glaber before going any further.
Another interesting take to look at (if you read German) is Alois Dempf's Sacrum Imperium. He has (if I remember correctly) a chapter on developments through this time period. Dempf, it should be noted, was highly influenced by German idealism and the early 20th-century artistic movements known as "German Symbolism" or "German Expressionism", for which he drew parallels in 12th-century thinkers.
ETA Dempf.
The best (in fact, the only principal one) source for what was happening around 1000 is Rodulfus Glaber and his Historiarum libri quinque, available with a facing-page English translation from Oxford Medieval Texts (on Amazon). I would recommend reading Glaber before going any further.
Another interesting take to look at (if you read German) is Alois Dempf's Sacrum Imperium. He has (if I remember correctly) a chapter on developments through this time period. Dempf, it should be noted, was highly influenced by German idealism and the early 20th-century artistic movements known as "German Symbolism" or "German Expressionism", for which he drew parallels in 12th-century thinkers.
ETA Dempf.
5cemanuel
This isn't something I've read on so I can only give hearsay stuff. Richard Landes from Boston U has written quite a bit on it. His most recent book is Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience. I tend to think he sees apocalyptic behavior sometimes (at least in less formal conversations) when folks are exercising simple prudence but he's supposed to know what he's talking about.
