Thread by @prof_gabriele, a brief thread in case others are interested 1/ #twitterstorians https://twitter.com/davidastinwalsh/status/1385569379258191875 PS [...]

a brief thread in case others are interested 1/ #twitterstorians https://twitter.com/davidastinwalsh/status/1385569379258191875">https://twitter.com/davidasti...

https://twitter.com/davidastinwalsh/status/1385569379258191875

PS these aren’t in order of preference, just random 2/

John Hall, APOCALYPSE 3/ https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745645087">https://politybooks.com/bookdetai...

Book Detail | Polity

Apocalypse, Winner of the American Sociological Association's 'Distinguished Book Award' in the Religion category

https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745645087

and @j_t_palmer APOCALYPSE IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (obviously period specific but has good intro thoughts) 4/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/apocalypse-in-the-early-middle-ages/ECDA878A3766A66A2F4B8A5D44443946">https://www.cambridge.org/core/book...

The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages

Cambridge Core - European History 450-1000 - The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/apocalypse-in-the-early-middle-ages/ECDA878A3766A66A2F4B8A5D44443946

Stephen O’Leary ARGUING THE APOCALYPSE (love this book) 5/ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/arguing-the-apocalypse-9780195121254?cc=us&lang=en&">https://global.oup.com/academic/...

Arguing the Apocalypse

Apocalyptic expectations of Armageddon and a New Age have been a fixture of the American cultural landscape for centuries. With the approach of the year 2000, such millennial visions seem once again...

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/arguing-the-apocalypse-9780195121254?cc=us&lang=en&

John Gray BLACK MASS 6/ https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531522">https://us.macmillan.com/books/978...

Black Mass | John Gray | Macmillan

For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned. The beginni...

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531522

Himmelfarb APOCALYPSE 7/ https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Apocalypse%3A+A+Brief+History-p-9781405113465">https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The...

and @Matt_A_Sutton AMERICAN APOCALYPSE 8/ https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975439">https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.p...

American Apocalypse — Matthew Avery Sutton | Harvard University Press

In the first comprehensive history of American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, Matthew Sutton shows how charismatic Protestant preachers, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically...

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975439

there are of course many more articles and shorter pieces too. hope these are useful #twitterstorians 9/9

I should add too that “apocalypse” is often conflated with “disaster” (such as nuclear war) and that’s indeed fair but the books above are more expansive on the idea of “apocalypse” as transformation and revelation. 10/9

see for example this thread 11/9 https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1246087276783964161">https://twitter.com/prof_gabr...

https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1246087276783964161

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