Eschatological Imagination

Eschatological Imagination

Space, Time, and Experience (1300-1800)

Boer, Wietse de; Goettler, Christine

Brill

11/2024

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1 The Space-Time Dimension of Early Modern Eschatology: An Introduction

?Wietse de Boer and Christine Goettler



Part 1: Cosmology and Eschatology

2 Depicting the Universal Conflagration: Time, Space, and Artifice in Peter Paul Rubens's Fall of the Damned

?Christine Goettler



3 A Castle in the Air? Space, Time, and Sensation in Gabriel de Henao's Empyreologia

?Wietse de Boer



4 Kepler's Somnium as Purgatorial Journey

?Aviva Rothman



Part 2: Underlands and Netherworlds

5 The Birth of Hell: An Angel, His Fall, and His Reign among Us

?Matteo Al Kalak



6 'Oh, How Unlike the Place from Whence They Fell!' John Milton's Primordial Hell in Paradise Lost

?Antoinina Bevan Zlatar



7 God's Underlands: Athanasius Kircher's Epic Journey in the Mundus Subterraneus

?Monica Azzolini



Part 3: Visions of Heaven and Hell

8 Ecstatic Visions: The Eschatological Imagination of Spanish Mystic Juana de la Cruz (d. 1534)

?Minou Schraven



9 Describing the Inconceivable in Eighteenth-Century Methodist and Quaker Visions of the Afterlife

?Martha McGill and Luke Holloway



10 From the Isle of Patmos to the Territory of the Plumed Serpent: Eschatological Imaginations Sparked by the Virgin of Guadalupe in Colonial New Spain

?Raphaele Preisinger



Part 4: Spiritual Reckoning and Refuge

11 Pondering Mary: Michelangelo's Farewell to Dante

?Jane Tylus



12 The Calvinist Theatre of God as a Pleasure Garden at the Time of the First French War of Religion (ca. 1560)

?Laurent Paya



Part 5: Sites of Purgation, Meditation, and Martyrdom

13 The Desert at the World's End: Eschatological Space in Van Hemessen's Hermit Landscapes

?Anna-Claire Stinebring



14 'Abstracto igitur animo': Eschatological Image-Making in the Emblematic Spiritual Exercises of Jan David, S.J.

?Walter S. Melion



15 The Jesuit Martyrdom Landscape and the Optics of Death

?Mia M. Mochizuki



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