Marjorie Reeves, formerly St Anne's College Oxford, UK

'Marjorie Reeves was the acknowledged master of medieval apocalypticism, and the twelve papers collected in The Prophetic Sense of History in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, [...] shows the range and depth of her scholarship.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• Contents: The development of apocalyptic thought: medieval attitudes; Pattern and purpose in history in the later medieval and Renaissance periods; The Bible and literary authorship in the Middle Ages; The originality and influence of Joachim of Fiore; The Abbot Joachim’s sense of history; Some popular prophecies from the 14th to the 17th centuries; The Vaticinia de summis pontificibus: a question of authorship; Dante and the prophetic view of history; The Third Age: Dante’s debt to Gioacchino da Fiore; Prophecy and history: Edigio da Viterbo’s Historia viginti saeculorum; History and eschatology: medieval and early Protestant thought in some English and Scottish writings; English apocalyptic thinkers (c.1540-1620); Index.

Marjorie Reeves, formerly St Anne's College Oxford, UK

'Marjorie Reeves was the acknowledged master of medieval apocalypticism, and the twelve papers collected in The Prophetic Sense of History in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, [...] shows the range and depth of her scholarship.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• Contents: The development of apocalyptic thought: medieval attitudes; Pattern and purpose in history in the later medieval and Renaissance periods; The Bible and literary authorship in the Middle Ages; The originality and influence of Joachim of Fiore; The Abbot Joachim’s sense of history; Some popular prophecies from the 14th to the 17th centuries; The Vaticinia de summis pontificibus: a question of authorship; Dante and the prophetic view of history; The Third Age: Dante’s debt to Gioacchino da Fiore; Prophecy and history: Edigio da Viterbo’s Historia viginti saeculorum; History and eschatology: medieval and early Protestant thought in some English and Scottish writings; English apocalyptic thinkers (c.1540-1620); Index.

Marjorie Reeves, formerly St Anne's College Oxford, UK

'Marjorie Reeves was the acknowledged master of medieval apocalypticism, and the twelve papers collected in The Prophetic Sense of History in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, [...] shows the range and depth of her scholarship.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• Contents: The development of apocalyptic thought: medieval attitudes; Pattern and purpose in history in the later medieval and Renaissance periods; The Bible and literary authorship in the Middle Ages; The originality and influence of Joachim of Fiore; The Abbot Joachim’s sense of history; Some popular prophecies from the 14th to the 17th centuries; The Vaticinia de summis pontificibus: a question of authorship; Dante and the prophetic view of history; The Third Age: Dante’s debt to Gioacchino da Fiore; Prophecy and history: Edigio da Viterbo’s Historia viginti saeculorum; History and eschatology: medieval and early Protestant thought in some English and Scottish writings; English apocalyptic thinkers (c.1540-1620); Index.