Looking for the End in Late Medieval Germany: Wolfgang Aytinger’s Commentary on Pseudo-Methodius

Laura Ackerman Smoller

p. 335-360


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1As a number of recent scholars have highlighted, German-speaking lands in the final decades of the fifteenth century were awash in prophetic texts, often overtly apocalyptic, and many of which mingled astrological prognostications with revealed pronouncements. Drawing upon Sibylline and Joachite materials as well prophecies of more recent origin, the authors of these works forecast future evils as well as the ultimate triumph of the forces of good, often through the agency of reforming emperors and/or popes1. Astrological techniques, often rooted in the analysis of comets, Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions, and other large-scale celestial phenomena, offered these predictions a degree of chronological precision, all the while providing a veneer of objectivity to the frequently opaque imagery of prophecy. And yet – or perhaps for this very reason –, these same years saw a heightening of tensions over the mingling of astrology and prophecy, often specifically concerning astrological predi

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