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Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History
In 1099, the soldiers of the First Crusade took Jerusalem. As the news of this victory spread throughout Medieval Europe, it felt nothing less than miraculous and dream-like, to such an extent that many believed history itself had been fundamentally altered by the event and that the Rapture was at hand. As a result of military conquest, Christians could see themselves as agents of rather than mere actors in their own salvation.The capture of Jerusalem changed everything. A loosely defined geographic backwater, comprised of petty kingdoms and shifting alliances, Medieval Europe began now to imagine itself as the center of the world. The West had overtaken the East not just on the world’s stage but in God’s plans. To justify this, its writers and thinkers turned to ancient prophecies, and specifically to one of the most enigmatic passages in the Bible the dream King Nebuchadnezzar has in the Book of Daniel, of a statue with a golden head and feet of clay. Conventional interpretation of the dream transformed the state into a series of kingdoms, each less glorious than the last, leading inexorably to the end of all earthly realms– in short, to the Apocalypse. The First Crusade signified to Christians that the dream of Nebuchadnezzar would be fulfilled on their terms. Such heady reconceptions continued until the disaster of the Second Crusade and with it, the collapse of any dreams of unification or salvation-any notion that conquering the Holy Land and defeating the Infidel could absolve sin. In Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream, Jay Rubenstein boldly maps out the steps by which these social, political, economic, and intellectual shifts occurred throughout the 12th century, drawing on those who guided and explained them. The Crusades raised the possibility of imagining the Apocalypse as more than prophecy but actual event. Rubenstein examines how those who confronted the conflict between prophecy and reality transformed the meaning and memory of the Crusades as well as their place in history.
 

Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream The Crusades Apocalyptic Prophecy and the End of History 1st Table of contents:

 Part I: Prophecy and the First Crusade
Chapter 1: Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream, 600 bce
Chapter 2: Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream, 1106 ce
Bohemond
Tall Tales
Peace with Honor
The Epic Hero
Chapter 3: Building Blocks of the Apocalypse
The Apocalypse: A Celebration
The Last Days as a Historical Problem
The Politics of History
Orosius the Prophet
Chapter 4: The Oncoming Madness of Antichrist
Antichrist, the Son of Perdition
The Two Dreams of Nebuchadnezzar
Antichrist and Emperor
Chapter 5: Sacred Geography
Jerusalem as Microcosm
The Travels of Alexander the Great
Legends and Last Days
Part II: Warning Signs
Chapter 6: Crusaders Behaving Badly
Penitential Warriors
The Fruits of Penance
Templars
Chapter 7: Troubling News from the East
The Crusade of 1101
The Trouble with Baldwin
The Field of Blood
Walter’s Book
Part III: Prophecy Revised (1144–1187)
Chapter 8: The Second Crusade’s Miraculous Failure
Your “L” Will Then Become a “C”
Crusade as Reenactment
Bernard of Clairvaux and Prophecy
Bernard’s Miracles, or God Goes All In
The Experience of Defeat
Chapter 9: Translatio imperii: Leaving Jerusalem
Otto of Freising’s Theory of History
Going to Jerusalem
Otto’s Apocalypse
Keeping the Nightmare Alive
Chapter 10: Apocalypse Begins at Home
Gerhoh of Reichersberg’s Dream of Jerusalem
Gerhoh’s Disillusionment
Putting the Last Emperor to Bed
Gerhoh’s Apocalyptic Vision of History
The Death of Crusading
Part IV: The New Iron Kingdom
Chapter 11: Jerusalem Lost
The Lost Ark of Christ
A Gift to Barbarossa
Chapter 12: The Crusade of Joachim of Fiore
A Newly Modeled History
Saladin, the Seven Seals, and the First Crusade
Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
Conclusion: The Ongoing Madness of Antichrist
Acknowledgments
Notes
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index
Plates
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