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  Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation & Enlightenment Apocalypticism

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  Reformation   Enlightenment  
  Apocalyptic in the Americas, 1500-1900 C.E.        


 
Apocalypticism in the Medieval Period
 

 
General Studies
Bardakjian, Kevork B. and Sergio La Porta, eds.  The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective, Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha 25.  Leiden: Brill, 2014.
 
Baumgartner, Frederic J.  Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
 
Bredero, Adriaan H.  "The Announcement of the Coming of the Antichrist and the Medieval Concept of Time."  In Prophecy and Eschatology (ed. Michael Wilk; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994) 3-13.
 
Bynum, Caroline Walker and Paul Freedman, eds.   Last Things: Death and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, The Middle Ages Series.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
 
Cohn, Norman.  "Medieval Millenarism: Its Bearing on the Comparative Study of Millenarian Movements."  In Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements (ed. Sylvia L. Thrupp; New York: Schocken, 1970) 31-43.
 
Dan, Joseph.  "Armilus: The Jewish Antichrist and the Origins and Dating of the Sefer Zerubbavel."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).
 
Emmerson, Richard K.  "Beyond the Apocalypse: The Human Antichrist in Late Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts."  In Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium (ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) 86-114.
 
Haas, Alois M.  "Otherworldly Journeys in the Middle Ages."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 442-66.
 
Head, Thomas and Richard Landes, eds.  The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response in France Around the Year 1000.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992.
 
Herrera, Robert A., ed.  Mystics of the Book: Themes, Topics and Typologies.  New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
 
Housley, Norman.  "The Eschatological Imperative: Messianism and Holy War in Europe."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).
 
Karrer, Kathryn M.  Millennial Activities in Late Thirteenth-Century Albi, France, Studies in French Civilization 11.  Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen, 1996.
 
Katz, David S. and Richard H. Popkin.  Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.
 
Lawrence, Peter.  "The Future Years: Cosmic Space and Time in Melanesian Cargoism and Mediaeval European Chiliasm."  In Millennialism and Charisma (ed. Roy Wallis; Belfast: Queen's University, 1982) 285-315. BT 891 M54
 
McGinn, Bernard.  "Apocalypticism and Church Reform: 1100-1500."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 74-109.
 
--------.  "Apocalyptic Traditions and Spiritual Identity in Thirteenth-Century Religious Life."  In The Spirituality of Western Christendom II (ed. E. Rozanne Elder; Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian, 1984) 1-26.
 
--------.  "'To the Scandal of Men, Women Are Prophesying': Female Seers of the High Middle Ages."  In Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium (ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) 59-85.
 
--------.  Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
 
Potestà, Gian Luca.  "Radical Apocalyptic Movements in the Late Middle Ages."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 110-42.
 
--------.  "Some Popular Prophecies from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries."  In Popular Belief and Practice: Papers Read at the Ninth Summer Meeting and the Tenth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (ed. G. J. Cuming and Derek Baker; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972) 107-134.
 
Reston, James, Jr.  The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D. New York: Anchor (Doubleday), 1998.
 
Ruderman, David B.  "Hope Against Hope: Jewish and Christian Messianic Expectations in the Late Middle Ages."  In Exile and Diaspora (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute of Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1991) 185-202.
 
Seibt, F.  "Liber Figurarum XII and the Classical Ideal of Utopia."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 257-66.
 

 
Joachim of Fiore
Alexander, Paul J.  "The Diffusion of Byzantine Apocalypses in the Medieval West and the Beginning of Joachimism."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 53-106.
 
Bloomfield, Morton W.  "Recent Scholarship on Joachim of Fiore and His Influence."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 21-52.
 
Daniel, E. Randolph.  "Abbot Joachim of Fiore: A Reformist Apocalyptic."  In Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium (ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) 207-210.
 
--------.  "Abbot Joachim of Fiore: The De Ultimis Tribulationibus."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 165-89.
 
Lee, Harold.  "The Anti-Lombard Figures of Joachim of Fiore: A Reinterpretation."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 127-42.
 
McGinn, Bernard, trans.  Apocalyptic Spirituality: Treatises and Letters of Lactantius, Adso of Montier-en-Der, Joachim of Fiore, the Franciscan Spirituals, Savonarola, Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist, 1979.
 
--------.  "Symbolism in the Thought of Joachim of Fiore."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 143-64.
 
Reeves, Marjorie E.  The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1969.
 
West, Delno C., Jr.  "The Education of Fra Salimbene of Parma: The Joachite Influence."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 191-215.
 

 
The Franciscan Spirituals and Franciscan Exegesis
Bolton, Brenda.  "Innocent III's Treatment of the Humiliati."  In Popular Belief and Practice: Papers Read at the Ninth Summer Meeting and the Tenth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (ed. G. J. Cuming and Derek Baker; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972) 73-82.
 
Krey, Philip D. W.  "The Apocalypse Commentary of 1329: Problems in Church History."  In Nicholas of Lyra: The Senses of Scripture (ed. Philip D. W. Krey and Lesley Smith, eds.; Studies in the History of Christian Thought 90; Leiden: Brill, 2000) 267-88.
 
Lambert, M. D.  Franciscan Poverty: The Doctrine of the Absolute Poverty of Christ and the Apostles in the Franciscan Order, 1210-1323.  London: S. P. C. K., 1961.
 
Leff, Gordon.  "The Franciscan Concept of Man."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 217-37.
 
Schmucki, O.  The Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi: A Critical Investigation in the Light of Thirteenth-Century Sources, trans. C. F. Connors, Franciscan Institute Publications: History Series 6. New York: St. Bonaventure University, 1991.
 

 
Medieval Jewish Apocalypticism
Abrams, Daniel.  "From Germany to Spain: Numerology as a Mystical Technique." Journal of Jewish Studies 47 (1996) 85-101.
 
Botwinick, Aryeh.  "Maimonides' Messianic Age."  Judaism 33 (1984) 418-25.
 
Cohen, Mark R.  "The Jews Under Islam: From the Rise of Islam to Sabbatai Zevi."  In Bibliographical Essays in Medieval Jewish Studies (New York: KTAV, 1976) 169-229.
 
Dienstag, Jacob I., ed.  Eschatology in Maimonidean Thought: Messianism, Resurrection, and the World to Come.  New York: KTAV, 1983.
 
Elior, Rachel.  "Not All is in the Hands of Heaven: Eschatology and Kabbalah."  In Eschatology in the Bible and in Jewish and Christian Tradition (ed. Henning Graf Reventlow; JSOTSup 243; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) 49-61.
 
Gladstein, Ruth.  "Eschatological Trends in Bohemian Jewry During the Hussite Period."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 239-56.
 
Idel, Moshe.  "Jewish Apocalypticism: 670-1670."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 204-237.
 
Ifrah, Georges.  From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, trans. Lowell Bair. New York: Viking, 1985; French original, Paris, 1981.
 
Yuval, Israel Jacob.  "Jewish Messianic Expectations towards 1240 and Christian Reactions."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).
 

 
Classical Islamic Apocalypticism
Arjomand, Saïd Amir.  "Islamic Apocalypticism in the Classic Period."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 238-83.
 
Cook, David B.  "The Apocalyptic Year 200/815-16."  In Apocalyptic Time (ed. Albert I. Baumgarten; Leiden: Brill, 2000) 41-68.
 
  Classical Islamic Apocalyptic.  Princeton, New Jersey: Darwin Press, 2002?.
 
--------.  "An Early Muslim Daniel Apocalypse."  Arabica 49 (2002) 55-96.
 
Hodgson, Marshall G. S.  "A Note on the Millennium in Islam."  In Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements (ed. Sylvia L. Thrupp; New York: Schocken, 1970) 218-19.
 
Holt, P. M.  "Islamic Millenarianism and the Fulfilment of Prophecy: A Case Study."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 335-47.
 

 
Apocalyptic in Medieval Literature & Art
Emmerson, Richard K.  "Apocalyptic Themes and Imagery in Medieval and Renaissance Literature."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 402-441.
 
Risden, Edward L.  Beasts of Time: Apocalyptic Beowulf, Studies in the Humanities 8. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.
 
Rydzeski, Justine.  Radical Nostalgia in the Age of Piers Plowman: Economics, Apocalypticism, and Discontent, Studies in the Humanities 48. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
 
Seidel, Linda.  "Apocalypse and Apocalypticism Art in Western Medieval Art."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 467-506.
 
Visser, Derk.  Apocalypse as Utopian Expectation (800-1500): The Apocalypse Commentary of Berengaudus of Ferričres and the Relationship between Exegesis, Liturgy and Iconography, SHCT 73. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.
 
 
Apocalypticism in the Renaissance
 
Armogathe, Jean Robert.  "The Debate over the Book of Revelation, 1500-1800."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 185-203.
 
Barnes, Robin B.  "Images of Hope and Despair: Apocalypticism, c. 1500-c. 1800."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 143-84.
 
Capp, Bernard.  "The Political Dimension of Apocalyptic Thought."  In Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature: Patterns, Antecedents, and Repercussions (ed. C. A. Patrides and Joseph Wittreich; Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1984) 93-124.
 
Carlebach, Elisheva.  "Rabbinic Circles as Messianic Pathways in the Post-Expulsion Era."  Judaism 41 (1992) 208-216.
 
Cohen, Mark R.  "The Jews Under Islam: From the Rise of Islam to Sabbatai Zevi."  In Bibliographical Essays in Medieval Jewish Studies (New York: KTAV, 1976) 169-229.
 
Elior, Rachel.  "Messianic Expectations and Spiritualization of Religious Life in the Sixteenth Century."  In Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (New York: New York University Press, 1992) 283-98.
 
Emmerson, Richard K.  "Apocalyptic Themes and Imagery in Medieval and Renaissance Literature."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 402-441.
 
Hamilton, Alastair.  The Apocryphal Apocalypse: The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Oxford-Warburg Studies.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
 
Katz, David S. and Richard H. Popkin.  "Renaissance Messianism."  In Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999) 3-31.
 
Nalle, Sara T.  "The Millennial Moment: Revolution and Radical Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).
 
Niccoli, Ottavia.  Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italy, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990.
 
Novinsky, Anita.  "Political Zionism in the Portuguese Renaissance (Damaîo de Gois)."  In Hesed ve-Emet: Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs (ed. Jodi Magness and Seymour Gitin; BJS 320; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998) 419-29.
 
Reeves, Marjorie E.  "Some Popular Prophecies from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries."  In Popular Belief and Practice: Papers Read at the Ninth Summer Meeting and the Tenth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (ed. G. J. Cuming and Derek Baker; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972) 107-134.
 
Weinstein, Donald.  "Millenarianism in a Civic Setting: The Savonarola Movement in Florence" In Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements (ed. Sylvia L. Thrupp; New York: Schocken, 1970) 166-86.
 
--------.  Savonarola and Florence: Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1970.
 
Wilks, Michael, ed.  Prophecy and Eschatology: Papers, Fifth Anglo-Dutch Colloquium of Church Historicans, Comm. Int'l. d'Histoire Eccl. Camparee, Gröningen, Netherlands, Ag. 1992.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell, 1994.
 
Apocalypticism in the Reformation
 
Armogathe, Jean Robert.  "The Debate over the Book of Revelation, 1500-1800."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 185-203.
 
Ball, Brian W.  "The Apocalyptic Significance of the Song of Solomon."  In A Great Expectation: Eschatological Thought in English Protestantism to 1600 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975) 239-42.
 
--------.  Prophecy and Gnosis: Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1988.
 
Barnes, Robin B.  "Images of Hope and Despair: Apocalypticism, c. 1500-c. 1800."  In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (ed. Bernard McGinn; New York: Doubleday, 1998) 143-84.
 
Bauckham, Richard.  Tudor Apocalypse: Sixteenth Century Apocalypticism, Millennarianism and the English Reformation.  Sutton Courtenay, 1978.
 
Baumgartner, Frederic J.  Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
 
Betteridge, Tom.  "From Prophetic to Apocalyptic: John Foxe and the Writing of History."  In John Foxe and the English Reformation: Papers from a Conference Held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, England, July 4-6, 1995 (ed. David M. Loades; Brookfield, Vermont: Scolar, 1997) 210-32.
 
Bignami-Odier, Jeanne.  "Prophecies Concerning the Later Stuarts."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 267-78.
 
Clouse, Robert G.  "John Napier and Apocalyptic Thought."  Sixteenth Century Journal 5 (1974) 101-114.
 
Coates, Willson.  "A Note on the Diggers."  In Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements (ed. Sylvia L. Thrupp; New York: Schocken, 1970) 220-21.
 
Cohen, Mark R.  "The Jews Under Islam: From the Rise of Islam to Sabbatai Zevi."  In Bibliographical Essays in Medieval Jewish Studies (New York: KTAV, 1976) 169-229.
 
Cooper, Brian G.  "Apocalypse of Protestant Europe in the Seventeenth Century."  London Quarterly and Holborn Review 185 (1960) 304-310.
 
Davies, W. D.  "From Schweitzer to Scholem: Reflections on Sabbatai Svi."  Journal of Biblical Literature 95 (1976) 529-58.
 
Deppermann, Klaus.  "Melchior Hoffman: Contradictions Between Lutheran Loyalty to Government and Apocalyptic Dreams."  In Profiles of Radical Reformers (Kitchener, Ontario: Herald, 1982) 178-90.
 
--------.  Melchior Hoffman: Social Unrest and Apocalyptic Visions in the Age of Reformation, trans. Malcolm Wren, ed. Benjamin Drewery. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1987.
 
Donaldson, Peter S.  "Machiavelli, Antichrist, and the Reformation: Prophetic Typology in Reginald Pole's De Unitate and Apologia ad Carolum Quintum."  In Leaders of the Reformation (ed. Richard L. DeMolen; Selingsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University Press, 1984) 211-46.
 
Falk, Avner.  "The Messiah and the Qelippoth: On the Mental Illness of Sabbatai Sevi."  Journal of Psychology and Judaism 7 (1982) 5-29.
 
Firth, Katherine R.  The Apocalyptic Tradition in Reformation Britain 1530-1645.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
 
Friedman, Jerome.  "The Reformation in Alien Eyes: Jewish Perceptions of Christian Troubles."  Sixteenth Century Journal 14 (1983) 23-40.
 
Fudge, Thomas A.  "The Night of Antichrist: Popular Culture, Judgment and Revolution in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia."  Communio Viatorum 37 (1 1995) 33-45.
 
Gritsch, Eric W.  "Thomas Muntzer and Luther: A Tragedy of Errors."  In Radical Tendencies in the Reformation (Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publications, 1988) 54-83.
 
Hamilton, Alastair.  The Apocryphal Apocalypse: The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Oxford-Warburg Studies.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
 
Heinz, Johann H.  "The 'Summer That Will Never End': Luther's Longing for the 'Dear Last Day' In His Sermon on Luke 21 (1531)."  Andrews University Seminary Studies 23 (1985) 181-6.
 
Hotson, Howard.  "The Historiographical Origins of Calvinist Millenarianism."  In Protestant History and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe, vol. 2, The Later Reformation (ed. Bruce Gordon; London: Scolar, 1996) 159-81.
 
Hynson, Leon O.  "Reformation and Perfection: The Social Gospel of Bishop Peck."  Methodist History 16 (1978) 82-91.
 
Idel, Moshe.  "Saturn and Sabbatai Tzevi: A New Approach to Sabbateanism."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).
 
Kaminsky, Howard.  "Chiliasm and the Hussite Revolution."  Church History 26 (1957) 43-71.
 
--------.  "The Free Spirit in the Hussite Revolution."  In Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements (ed. Sylvia L. Thrupp; New York: Schocken, 1970) 166-86.
 
Katz, David S. and Richard H. Popkin.  "The Messianic Idea during the Reformation" and "The Messiah during the Thirty Years' War."  In Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999) 32-88.
 
Kingdon, Robert M.  "Early Protestant Views of the Book of Revelation."  In Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium (ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999) 211-13.
 
Klaasen, Walter.  Living at the End of the Ages: Apocalyptic Expectation in the Radical Reformation.  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1992.
 
Kyle, Richard.  "John Knox's Concept of History: A Focus on the Providential and Apocalyptic Aspects of His Religious Faith."  Fides et Historia 18 (1986) 5-19.
 
Lamont, William M.  "Christian Magistrate and Romish Wolf."  In Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (ed. Ann Williams; Harlow: Longman, 1980) 279-303. (Puritanism)
 
Lewis, Geoffrey L. and Cecil Roth.  "New Light on the Apostasy of Sabbatai Zevi."  Jewish Quarterly Review 53 (1963) 219-25.
 
Martin, Lynnewood F.  "Family of Love in England: Conforming Millenarians."  Sixteenth Century Journal 3 (1972) 99-108.
 
McKnight, Laura Blair.  "Crucifixion or Apocalypse? Refiguring the Eikon Basilike."  In Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688 (ed. Donald B. Hamilton and Richard Strier; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 138-60.
 
The Mennonite Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite Movement.  Hillsboro, Kansas: Mennonite Brethren, 1955-1959.
 
Merrill, Eugene H.  "Sabbatai Zvi and Jewish Messianism."  Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 16 (1973) 159-65.
 
Packull, Werner O.  "A Reinterpretation of Melchior Hoffman's Exposition against the Background of Spiritualist Franciscan Eschatology with Special Reference to Peter John Olivi."  In Dutch Dissenters: A Critical Companion to Their History and Ideas (ed. Irvin B. Horst; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986) 32-65.
 
Pinnock, Clark H.  "Eschatological Hopes in the Protestant Tradition."  In Human Condition in the Jewish and Christian Traditions (Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV, 1986) 235-55.
 
Popkin, Richard H.  "Two Unused Sources About Sabbatai Zevi and His Effect on European Communities."  In Dutch Jewish History, vol. 2 (Jerusalem: Institute for Research on Dutch Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989) 67-74.
 
Reeves, Marjorie E.  "Some Popular Prophecies from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries."  In Popular Belief and Practice: Papers Read at the Ninth Summer Meeting and the Tenth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (ed. G. J. Cuming and Derek Baker; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972) 107-134.
 
Robinson-Hammerstein, Helga.  "Messianic Ideals in the German Reformation."  In Messianism Through History (London: SCM, 1993) 82-97.
 
Russell, Paul.  "'Your Sons and Your Daughters Shall Prophesy' (Joel 2:28): Pamphlet Literature of Southwestern Germany to 1525."  Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 74 (1983) 122-40.
 
Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm.  "Salvation through Philology: The Poetical Messianism of Quirinus Kuhlmann (1651-1689)."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).
 
Scholem, Gershom Gerhard.  Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676, trans. R. J. Zwi Werblowsky. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1976.
 
Sharot, Stephen.  Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements.  Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
 
Stayer, James M.  "Christianity in One City: Anabaptist Munster, 1534-35."  In Radical Tendencies in the Reformation (Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publications, 1988) 117-34.
 
--------.  "The Passing of the Radical Moment in the Radical Reformation: Apocalyptic, Utopian Vision Gives Way to Accommodation after 1537."   Mennonite Quarterly Review 71 (1997) 147-52.
 
Torrance, Thomas F.  "History and Reformation."  Scottish Journal of Theology 4 (1951) 279-91.
 
Vogler, Gunter.  "The Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster in the Tension Between Anabaptism and Imperial Policy."  In Radical Tendencies in the Reformation (Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publications, 1988) 98-116.
 
Waite, Gary K.  "From Apocalyptic Crusaders to Anabaptist Terrorists: Anabaptist Radicalism after Munster, 1535-1544.  Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 80 (1989) 173-93.
 
Wall, Ernestine F. E. van der.  "A Precursor of Christ or a Jewish Imposter? Petrus Serrarius and Jean de Labadie on the Jewish Messianic Movement around Sabbatai Sevi."  In Pietismus und Neuzeit (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988) 109-124.
 
Wilks, Michael, ed.  Prophecy and Eschatology: Papers, Fifth Anglo-Dutch Colloquium of Church Historicans, Comm. Int'l. d'Histoire Eccl. Camparee, Gröningen, Netherlands, Ag. 1992.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell, 1994.
 
Williamson, Arthur H.  "The Jewish Dimension of the Scottish Apocalypse: Climate, Covenant and World Renewal."  In Menasseh ben Israel and His World (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989) 7-30.
 
Wolfson, Elliot R.  "The Engenderment of Messianic Politics: Symbolic Significance of Sabbatai Sevi's Coronation."  In Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (ed. Peter Schafer and Mark R. Cohen; Studies in the History of Religions 77; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998).
 
Zakai, Avihu.  "Thomas Brightman and English Apocalyptic Tradition."  In Menasseh ben Israel and His World (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989) 31-44.
 
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