Apocalyptic Thought in Late Fourteenth-Century England

该项目将评估十四世纪后半叶英国中世纪思想和文化中对世界末日的不断变化的解释。它的重点是接受关键圣经文本，包括天气福音和启示录，最有争议的书在基督教思想。这些书成为当代危机（如1378年的大分裂）的暗流的一部分，在14世纪末为罗拉迪的传播辩护和辩护方面都很重要。通过这些当代事件，我们发现了一个长期的英国启示传统的延续，源于近700年前的旧文本，如伪卫理公会和Berengaudus的著作正在以新的方式重新循环，以反映当代对末日的理解。这些思想是用拉丁语传播的，但这一时期也出现了中世纪英语文本的创作和汇编，这些文本邀请人们在新的、混合的世俗和神职人员受众中，以及在从东正教到罗拉德派的教义范围内，对世界末日思想的改编和接受进行调查。此外，这晚，十四世纪启示论的调查将探讨可能的独特性，英国的启示传统，将其设置在目前的学术理解的发展，欧洲大陆的启示传统。

The project will assess the changing interpretation of the apocalypse within English medieval thought and culture in the latter half of the fourteenth century. It focuses on the reception of key biblical texts including the Synoptic Gospels and Revelation, the most controversial book in Christian thought. These books became part of the undercurrent to contemporary crises such as the Schism of 1378 and were important in both justifying and defying the spread of Lollardy throughout the late 1300s. Through these contemporary events, we find the continuation of a long English apocalyptic tradition, stemming from almost 700 years earlier with old texts such as the writings of Pseudo-Methodius and Berengaudus being recirculated in a new fashion in order to reflect contemporary understandings of the End. These ideas were disseminated in Latin but the period also saw the creation and compilation of Middle English texts which invite inquiry into the adaption and reception of apocalyptic thought among new, mixed lay and clerical audiences, and across the doctrinal spectrum from orthodox to Lollards. Further, this investigation of late-fourteenth century apocalypticism will explore the possible distinctiveness of an English apocalyptic tradition by setting it within current scholarly understandings of the development of a European continental apocalyptic tradition.