EMPEROR OTTO III AND THE END OF TIME
Levi Roach
ABSTRACT There has been much controversy over the role of apocalyptic thought at court Otto III Germany (983–1002). This is in no small part a product modern scholarship discussing subject almost exclusively with reference to so-called ‘terrors year 1000’, result being highly polarised ‘all or nothing’ arguments, which run risk underestimating both complexity and dynamism eschatological expectation this period. In contrast, following paper argues that played an important politics under III, but one cannot be explained by proximity first millennium alone.
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