Abstract » Marriott
Prague 2009
Apocalypticism, Millenarianism, and Prophecy: Eschatological Expectations between East-Central and Western Europe, 1560-1670
Brandon MARRIOTT
Jewish Mercantile Networks as Intermediaries in the Communication of Apocalyptic Expectations between England and the Levant
The seventeenth century was ripe with millennial and messianic excitement throughout the Judeo-Christian world. This paper discusses my current doctoral project that explores millenarianism in a cross-religious and transnational manner and argues that this approach can add a fruitful avenue of enquiry to the field. In particular, I examine how population displacement created intersecting networks that were used to spread millennial and messianic information along a conduit from the Ottoman Empire through Italy and the Netherlands to England and beyond. After highlighting examples of the movement of this information, this paper discusses the theoretical and methodological framework that supports this approach in order to demonstrate how elements of world history and network analysis can add a new dimension to the study of early-modern millenarianism.
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