THE MONGOL INVASIONS BETWEEN EPISTOLOGRAPHY AND PROPHECY: THE CASE OF THE LETTER “AD FLAGELLUM,” C. 1235/36–1338
This is a study of an apocalyptic Latin letter (incipit “Ad flagellum humani generis”), surviving in manuscripts from the mid-thirteenth to fourteenth centuries, that describes an apparent aggressive invasion of an ascetic army in the distant East, led by a figure claiming to be Christ and bearing a...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2018
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Traditio
Year: 2018, Volume: 73, Pages: 117-177 |
Further subjects: | B
Crusades
B Mongols B Diplomacy B Transcaucasia B Mythology B Prophecy B epistolography / letters |
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