Medieval Apocalypse

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In the early 12th century, when England was suffering wave after wave of Viking invasions, many wondered how God could allow their kingdom to be ravaged by pagans? The Archbishop of York Wulfstan had an answer: the apocalypse was coming. What did that mean to people in the Middle Ages?

In this episode of Gone Medieval, Dr. Eleanor Janega talks to Professor Matthew Gabriele, about how medieval people understood the end of the world, where they got such concepts from, and whether such a belief could actually be a hopeful one?

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0:21.6	forward slash trips. History Hit.com.com. Forward slash Trips. Sometime between the years 1010 and 1016, Wolfstan, the Archbishop of York,
0:42.1	knew the kingdom of England had a problem.
0:44.0	The people were suffering as wave after wave of Viking invasions terrorized the land
0:50.0	and countless English people were carried off and enslaved.
0:53.0	How, many wondered, could a God-fearing kingdom like England be allowed to be ravaged by pagans?
1:00.0	Wolfstan had an answer, and he hastened to write a sermon for the English people as a whole, which explained it.
1:07.0	In it, he said,
1:09.0	Beloved men know that which is true. This world is in haste and it nears the end.
1:16.0	And therefore things in this world go ever the longer the worse,
1:20.0	and so it must need be that things quickly worsen on account of people's
1:25.9	sinning from day to day before the coming of Antichrist and indeed it will then be awful and grim widely throughout the world.
1:36.4	Understand also well that the devil has now led this nation astray for very many years and that little loyalty has remained
1:45.6	among men though they spoke well and too many crimes reined in this land and
1:51.6	there were never many of men who deliberated about the remedy
1:56.1	as eagerly as one should. But daily they piled one evil upon another and committed injustices and many violations of law all too widely
2:07.7	throughout this entire land.
2:10.8	We have earned the misery that is upon us, and with truly great desserts, we must obtain
2:17.0	the remedy from God, if henceforth things are to improve.
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