The Eschatological Imagination by Wietse Boer

The Eschatological Imagination by Wietse Boer

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.

A “fascinating volume [..] My brief remarks can only hint at the wonderfully diverse and thought-provoking essays in this volume, which has been sensitively edited by de Boer and Göttler.”
Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas, Austin. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2025), pp. 513–516.

Wietse de Boer is the Phillip R. Shriver Professor of History at Miami University (Ohio). His research interests are focused on Italian religious and cultural history (15th–17th centuries). His books include The Conquest of the Soul: Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan (2001; Italian trans. 2004) and Art in Dispute: Catholic Debates at the Time of Trent (2021).

Christine Göttler is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Bern. Her research interests focus on the intersections between art, natural philosophy, and religion, the relationship between landscape and nature, and early modern notions of materiality and immateriality. Her publications include the monograph Last Things: Art and the Religious Imagination in the Age of Reform (2010).

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ISBN 13	9789004688094
ISBN 10	9004688099
Title	The Eschatological Imagination
Author	Wietse De Boer
Series	Intersections
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Brill
Year published	2024-11-25
Number of pages	532
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