L'ultimo messia. Profezia e sovranità nel Medioevo

Translated title of the contribution: [Autom. eng. transl.] The last messiah. Prophecy and sovereignty in the Middle Ages

Gian Luca Potesta'

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Abstract

[Autom. eng. transl.] The Second Letter to the Thessalonians announces a mysterious subject destined to oppose the imminent fury of the Son of Perdition. In the East in the 7th century the Pauline announcement refers to the most powerful and last "king of the Greeks and the Romans". Later, in the West new messianic figures set the prophetic expectations: the "king of the Franks", the angelic pastor, the second Charlemagne and finally the people of the cities. The book determines the genesis and purpose of the most popular medieval prophecies, apocalypses and sibyls. Obscure and allusive texts, considered in the past simple witnesses of a remote mythical imaginary, reveal themselves to be refined instruments of political-religious propaganda. Projecting historically present conflicts of power in the final times, restore with the force of symbolic language the conceptions of sovereignty proper to an era.
Translated title of the contribution[Autom. eng. transl.] The last messiah. Prophecy and sovereignty in the Middle Ages
Original languageItalian
PublisherIl Mulino
Number of pages248
ISBN (Print)9788815251022
Publication statusPublished - 2014

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NameSaggi

Keywords

  • Profezia
  • messianismo
  • oracoli medievali
  • sibille medievali
  • vaticini medievali

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