Cohn Norman. The pursuit of the millennium: Revolutionary millenarians and mystical anarchists of the Middle Ages

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0195004566; ISBN13: 978-0195004564The Middle Ages inherited from antiquity a tradition of prophecy and gave it new life. This tradition foretold a millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new paradise on earth, free from suffering and sin. This is the story of those millenarian fanaticisms, and points to their persistence in the modern era.Introduction: The scope of this bookThe Tradition of Apocalyptic Prophecy
The Tradition of Religious Dissent
The Messianism of the Disoriented Poor
The Saints Against the Hosts of Antichrist
In the Backwash of the Crusades
The Emperor Frederick as Messiah
An Elite of Self-immolating Redeemers
An Elite of Amoral Supermen (I), (II)
The Egalitarian State of Nature
The Egalitarian Millennium (I),(II),(III)Appendix. The "Free Spirit' in Cromwell's England: the Ranters and their literature