Andrew Sorber is an assistant professor of Humanities and History at Southern Virginia University and the program coordinator for History. His research and teaching explore the religious, political, and intellectual history of the early medieval Mediterranean world, with topics including apocalypticism, polemics, interreligious understanding, debate, and conflict. His publications focus on issues of authority in Islamic al-Andalus and the Frankish kingdoms ruled by the Carolingians. He completed a bachelor’s degree in history at Brigham Young University, a master’s degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a doctorate in medieval history at the University of Virginia.

‘[Sorber’s] study … offers a close reading of a number of important sources to demonstrate significant trends in political thought and language’ – CHOICE, December 2024.

• Chapter 1 – Introduction: Prophetic Rhetoric and Apocalyptic Authority in the Carolingian WorldChapter 2 – Speaking for God in the Reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, 768–840Chapter 3 – Reading and Reforming the World (c. 771–c. 789)Chapter 4 – Confronting Crisis and Controlling Meaning (789–814)Chapter 5 – Expanding Impact and Diminishing Control (814–829)Chapter 6 – Pulling God Into Debate (829–840) Chapter 7 – Epilogue: Prophetic Pasts and Apocalyptic Futures

Andrew Sorber is an assistant professor of Humanities and History at Southern Virginia University and the program coordinator for History. His research and teaching explore the religious, political, and intellectual history of the early medieval Mediterranean world, with topics including apocalypticism, polemics, interreligious understanding, debate, and conflict. His publications focus on issues of authority in Islamic al-Andalus and the Frankish kingdoms ruled by the Carolingians. He completed a bachelor’s degree in history at Brigham Young University, a master’s degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a doctorate in medieval history at the University of Virginia.

‘[Sorber’s] study … offers a close reading of a number of important sources to demonstrate significant trends in political thought and language’ – CHOICE, December 2024.

• Chapter 1 – Introduction: Prophetic Rhetoric and Apocalyptic Authority in the Carolingian WorldChapter 2 – Speaking for God in the Reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, 768–840Chapter 3 – Reading and Reforming the World (c. 771–c. 789)Chapter 4 – Confronting Crisis and Controlling Meaning (789–814)Chapter 5 – Expanding Impact and Diminishing Control (814–829)Chapter 6 – Pulling God Into Debate (829–840) Chapter 7 – Epilogue: Prophetic Pasts and Apocalyptic Futures

Andrew Sorber is an assistant professor of Humanities and History at Southern Virginia University and the program coordinator for History. His research and teaching explore the religious, political, and intellectual history of the early medieval Mediterranean world, with topics including apocalypticism, polemics, interreligious understanding, debate, and conflict. His publications focus on issues of authority in Islamic al-Andalus and the Frankish kingdoms ruled by the Carolingians. He completed a bachelor’s degree in history at Brigham Young University, a master’s degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a doctorate in medieval history at the University of Virginia.

‘[Sorber’s] study … offers a close reading of a number of important sources to demonstrate significant trends in political thought and language’ – CHOICE, December 2024.

• Chapter 1 – Introduction: Prophetic Rhetoric and Apocalyptic Authority in the Carolingian WorldChapter 2 – Speaking for God in the Reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, 768–840Chapter 3 – Reading and Reforming the World (c. 771–c. 789)Chapter 4 – Confronting Crisis and Controlling Meaning (789–814)Chapter 5 – Expanding Impact and Diminishing Control (814–829)Chapter 6 – Pulling God Into Debate (829–840) Chapter 7 – Epilogue: Prophetic Pasts and Apocalyptic Futures