77. Dante,
78. Quoted in Schussler Fiorenza,
79. Bernard McGinn, “Revelation,” in Alter and Kermode,
80. Quoted in McGinn, 529 (adapted).
81. Quoted in Roberto Rusconi, “Antichrist and Antichrists,” in McGinn,
82. “Against Hanswurst,” quoted in Ronald B. Bond, “Whore of Babylon,” in Drane,
83. Jean-Robert Armogathe, “Interpretations of the Revelation of John: 1500–1800,” in
84. Rev. 19:13, 15 (KJV).
85. Quoted in Boyer,
86. McGinn,
87. Quoted in McGinn,
88. Boyer,
89. Quoted in Boyer,
90. Quoted in Cohn, 237, 239, 247 (adapted).
91. Robin Barnes, “Images of Hope and Despair: Western Apocalypticism: ca. 1500–1800,” in
92. Cohn,
93. Cohn,
94. Quoted in Cohn,
95. Cohn,
96. Quoted in Cohn,
97. Cohn,
98. Gian Luca Potesta, “Radical Apocalyptic Movements in the Late Middle Ages,” in
99. Tizio, “the Sienese chronicler,” quoted in Thompson,
100. Quoted in Van Paassen,
101. Rev. 18:12–13 (RSV).
102. Quoted in de la Bedoyere,
103. Robin Barnes, “Images of Hope and Despair: Western Apocalypticism: ca. 1500–1800,” in
104. Quoted in Van Paassen,
105. Quoted in Van Paassen,
106. Quoted in Van Paassen,
107. Quoted in Van Paassen,
108. Quoted in de la Bedoyere,
109. Van Paassen,
110. Van Paassen,
111. Van Paassen insists that only illustrated copies of Petrarch and Boccacio, featuring “miniatures of a salacious character,” were burned. Van Paassen,
112. Quoted in de la Bedoyere,
113. Quoted in de la Bedoyere,
114. Quoted in Van Paassen,
115. Quoted in de la Bedoyere,
116. Bernard McGinn, quoted in Thompson,
117. Quoted in de la Bedoyere,
118. Rev. 21:5 (KJV).
119. Robin Barnes, “Images of Hope and Despair: Western Apocalypticism: ca. 1500–1800,” in
120. McGinn,
121. Quoted in McGinn, “Apocalypticism and Church Reform: 1100–1500,” in McGinn, 102.
122. Bernard McGinn, “The Last Judgment in Christian Tradition,” in
123. Quoted in Boyer,
124. Rev. 21:1 (KJV). (The phrase is rendered in the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Bible, in the objective case—that is,
CHAPTER 6: TO BEGIN THE WORLD OVER AGAIN
1. David L. Jeffrey and Marjorie Reeves, “Millennium,” in Drane,
2.
3. William Blake, “Jerusalem” (1804), quoted in Boyer,
4. Blake, “Jerusalem” (1804), quoted in Boyer,
5. Not every historian is quite so convinced, however. “Whether or not English Puritans justified their removal to the New World in eschatological terms is an issue that has divided the scholarly community since the 1980s.” Reiner Smolinski, “Apocalypticism in Colonial North America,” in Stein,
6. Quoted in Boyer,
7. Cotton Mather, quoted in Boyer,
8. Quoted in Boyer,
9. Quoted in Robin Barnes, “Images of Hope and Despair: Western Apocalypticism: ca. 1500–1800,” in
10. Quoted in Thompson,
11. Quoted in Boyer,
12.
13. Quoted in McGinn, in Alter and Kermode,
14. Paraphrased in Boyer,
15. Boyer,
16. Perry Miller, “The End of the World” (1950), paraphrased in (and adapted from) Boyer,
17. Cotton Mather,
18. Quoted in Wendell,
19. Thompson,
20.
