"Beware False Prophets": The Contest over Prophecy in the Late Middle Ages (original) (raw)
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A cura di Alessandro Palazzo e Anna Rodolfi 🔗 https://bit.ly/35rX6Nn A. Palazzo – A. Rodolfi, Introduction. ISLAMIC AND JEWISH TRADITIONS. C. Martini Bonadeo, La rivelazione, la profezia, il profeta e la sua facoltà immaginativa nelle opere di Abu Nasr Al-Farabi - A. Bertolacci, The Metaphysical Proof of Prophecy in Avicenna - M. Signori, Prophecy and the Authority of the Prophet in al-Gazali’s Maqasid al-fala sifa - M. Benedetto, Between Impiety and Holiness: The Art of Prophecy in Maimonides. CHRISTIAN TRADITION. R. De Filippis, Prophecy, Prophets and the Problem of Truth in Latin Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages - M. V. Ingegno, Lingue e profezia in Gilberto Porretano (I Cor. 14,1-40) - A. Rodolfi, Prophesying and Being a Prophet. The Case of Caiaphas as an Evil Prophet, from Hugh of Saint-Cher to Thomas Aquinas - A. Palazzo, Eckhart on Divine Prescience and Human Foreknowledge: Prophecy, Visions, and Divination. - F. Bonini, Forms of Pronosticatio in the Plague Tractate by Augustine of Trento - R. Fedriga – R. Limonta, Eloquium prophetarum. Prophecies and Future Contingents in William of Ockham, Walter Chatton and Richard Kilvington - M. Lodone, Profezia e ragione. Enrico di Langenstein contro Telesforo da Cosenza. Indexes by A. Palazzo.
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Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science
Scholars of medieval and early modern science have long been indebted to the editors of Micrologus and the Micrologus Library for a series of volumes that broaden the boundaries of the field and deepen our understanding of its contexts. This latest contribution to the Micrologus Library offers a wide view of medieval thinking about prophecy. As Palazzo and Rodolfi point out in their introduction to this collection of essays, while numerous scholars have written about prophecies and their various uses by medieval people, there has been far less attention given to philosophical and theological teachings about prophecy. Reviewed by: Laura Ackerman Smoller, Published Online (2022-07-31)Copyright © 2022 by Laura Ackerman SmollerArticle PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/39100/29786 Corresponding Author: Laura Ackerman Smoller,University of RochesterE-Mail: laura.smoller@rochester.edu
[SPECIAL ISSUE] Prophecy and Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
F. Courney Kneupper, M. Lodone (eds.), Prophecy and Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, «Rivista di storia del cristianesimo», 21 (2024), 3-110
[ENG] Prophecy and apocalypse have been an essential part of Christianity since its origins, although the two phenomena have had multiple forms of expression and a very different impact on society over the centuries. Moving intentionally in a diachronic perspective, the «Rivista di storia del cristianesimo» has already hosted a number of notable contributions devoted to this field. In this Special Issue dedicated to “Prophecy and Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe”, prophecy is understood as a vision of hidden things (relating particularly, but not exclusively, to the future) by an individual who communicates them to those who are unable to see them. In this process of reception and communication (potentially repeatable and often repeated many times), two key aspects are on the one hand the authority of the prophet who sees and reveals such hidden content, and on the other the process of revising and adapting either this “prophetic authorities” or their message to different audiences. / [ITA] Profezia e apocalisse sono state una parte essenziale del cristianesimo fin dalle sue origini, anche se i due fenomeni hanno avuto molteplici forme di espressione e un impatto molto diverso sulla società nel corso dei secoli. Muovendosi in una prospettiva diacronica, la “Rivista di storia del cristianesimo” ospita da tempo importanti contributi dedicati a tale argomento. Nel presente numero monografico, “Profezia e autorità tra basso medioevo e prima età moderna”, la profezia è intesa come una visione di cose nascoste (relative in particolare, ma non esclusivamente, al futuro) da parte di un individuo che le comunica a chi non è in grado di vederle. In questo processo di ricezione e comunicazione (potenzialmente ripetibile e spesso ripetuto più volte), due aspetti sono decisivi: l'autorità del profeta che vede e rivela tali contenuti nascosti, e il processo di revisione e adattamento di queste “autorità profetiche” o del loro messaggio a pubblici diversi.
Revisiting Early Modern Prophecies (c.1500-c.1815)
The Reformation dramatically changed Europe’s religious and political landscapes within a few decades. The Protestant emphasis on translating the Scriptures into the vernacular and the developments of the printing press rapidly gave increased visibility to the most obscure parts of the Bible. Similarly, Spanish and Italian mystics promoted a spiritual regeneration of the Catholic Church during the Counter-Reformation. Prophecies, whether of biblical, ancient or popular origin, as well as their interpretations gradually began reaching a wider audience, sparking controversies throughout all levels of society across Europe. In recent years, new research has eroded the long standing historiographical consensus of an increasing secularisation accelerated by the Enlightenment, which allegedly cast away beliefs in prophecies and miracles as outmoded. The multiplication of case studies on millenarian movements suggests a radically different picture, yet many questions remain. How did prophecies evolve with the politico-religious conjunctions of their time? Who read them? How seriously were they taken?
PROPHECY IN THE REFORMATION TRADITION
This paper examines the gift or prophecy as understood in the Reformed tradition following the Reformation. It identifies different uses of the word, and shows that there was a full acceptance of prophecy as preaching, wide acceptance of occasional predictions, but a general rejection of post-biblical prophecies that claimed to reveal God's will for his people.
The XXVII Annual Colloquium of the SIEPM ("Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination") will be held in Trento (Italy), 13-15 September 2023. All those who are interested in giving a paper are warmly invited to submit a proposal by January 31, 2023. Submissions should contain the title of the presentation, an abstract of no more than 500 words, as well as the author’s name and affiliation. Please send your abstract to: alessandro.palazzo@unitn.it irene.zavattero@unitn.it Further details are available on the following page: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/siepm/siepm-2023
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apocalypse entitled "Dies irae. Eine Geschichte des Weltuntergangs". Dies irae is a well-known hymn dating to the 13 th century, which was part of the Roman Catholic requiem mass liturgy until the 20 th century. Already the first two verses show how radical a break Christianity considered the apocalypse and judgement day to be:
PROPHECY, ESCHATOLOGY, GLOBAL NETWORKS, AND THE CRUSADES, FROM HATTIN TO FREDERICK II
Traditio, 2022
Although interest in the influence of prophecy and eschatology on the crusade movement and on cross-cultural conceptions of righteous conflict has recently revived, to date there has been little consideration of the reception, transmission, and reinterpretation of multifarious prophecies by networks of individuals involved in the promotion of various crusades from roughly 1187 to 1240. This study tracks the circulation, adaptation, and impact of influential prophecies publicized by papal legates, by crusade recruiters trained in Paris, and by their colleagues in the Victorine, Praemonstratensian, and Cistercian orders.