Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gbm5v Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T19:30:26.586Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

12 - Apocalyptic Sensibility in Renaissance Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

By
Ian Boxall
Edited by
Colin McAllister
Colin McAllister
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Get access

Summary

This chapter examines the role of apocalyptic thought during the Renaissance, which was marked by both continuity with medieval apocalypticism and innovation. It includes consideration of its impact on sober humanist scholarship, fierce Reformation debates regarding the papacy, apocalyptic optimism associated with exploration and missionary expansion in the New World, and esoteric speculation about the figure of Enoch.

Keywords

visual artReformationhumanismChristopher Columbus
Type
Chapter
Information
The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature , pp. 212 - 230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Selected Further Reading

Backus, Irena. Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Bentley, Jerry H. Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hatfield, Rab. “Botticelli’s Mystic Nativity, Savonarola and the Millennium.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 58 (1995): 88–114.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leftley, Sharon. “The Millennium in Renaissance Italy: A Persecuted Belief?” Renaissance Studies 13, no. 2 (1999): 117–29.Google Scholar
Minton, Gretchen E. “‘Suffer me not to be separated | And let my cry come unto thee’: John Bale’s Apocalypse and the Exilic Imagination.” Reformation 15 (2010): 83–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
O’Hear, Natasha. Contrasting Images from the Book of Revelation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Szőnyi, György E. John Dee’s Occultism: Magical Exaltation through Powerful Signs. SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Vespucci, Amerigo. Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci’s Discovery of America. Edited by Formisano, Luciano. New York: Marsilio, 1992.Google Scholar
Wyatt, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×