The Eschatological Imagination  - Boer, Wietse de; Göttler, Christine; (ed.) - Prospero Internet Bookshop

The Eschatological Imagination 

Space, Time, and Experience (1300?1800)
 
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This book explores how early-modern Christian eschatology understood the cosmological dimensions of space and time, and how ideas, representations, and practices concerning the afterlife evolved as the scientific breakthroughs of the time became matters of common knowledge.

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How did the early-modern Christian West conceive of the spaces and times of the afterlife? The answer to this question is not obvious for a period that saw profound changes in theology, when the telescope revealed the heavens to be as changeable and imperfect as the earth, and when archaeological and geological investigations made the earth and what lies beneath it another privileged site for the acquisition of new knowledge.


With its focus on the eschatological imagination at a time of transformation in cosmology, this volume opens up new ways of studying early-modern religious ideas, representations, and practices. The individual chapters explore a wealth of ? at times little-known ? visual and textual sources. Together they highlight how closely concepts and imaginaries of the hereafter were intertwined with the realities of the here and now.



Contributors: Matteo Al Kalak, Monica Azzolini, Wietse de Boer, Christine Göttler, Luke Holloway, Martha McGill, Walter S. Melion, Mia M. Mochizuki, Laurent Paya, Rapha?le Preisinger, Aviva Rothman, Minou Schraven, Anna-Claire Stinebring, Jane Tylus, and Antoinina Bevan Zlatar.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors



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

Wietse de Boer and Christine Göttler



Part 1: Cosmology and Eschatology



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

Christine Göttler



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

Rapha?le 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



Index Nominum