The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

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7.0

The Pequod Review:

Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium is a study of “end times” sects between approximately 1200 and 1600. The book is not merely a useful historical study of an important political moment, but it also becomes a broader exploration of human psychology. And it has relevance to our current politics, as it shows the social and economic conditions that give rise to such apocalyptic sentiments.