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Adso of Montier-en-Der (992)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

... of Montier-en-Der (d. 992 ) *Benedictine abbot and author of Libellus de Antichristo ( c .950 ), which organizes patristic *exegesis and legendary beliefs concerning the end of the world into a future ‘life’ of *Antichrist from birth to death. See also literatures: apocalyptic . Richard K. Emmerson Adso Dervensis, De Ortu et Tempore Antichristi , ed. D. Verhelst , CCCM 45 (1976). Adso of Montier-en-Der, ‘Letter on the Origin and Time of Antichrist,’ tr. B. McGinn , Apocalyptic Spirituality ...

Adso of Montier-en-der (930–992)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

... of Montier-en-der ( 930–992 ) Scholasticus then Abbot of Montier-en-Der (south-west of Saint-Dizier), Adso was subsequently abbot of Saint-Bénigne at Dijon and died on a journey to the Holy Places. He is known for a treatise De ortu et tempore Antichristi , written before 954 at the request of Queen Gerberge . In the orthodox tradition inaugurated by St Augustine , he opposed a popular belief that fixed the end of the world in the year 1000 . But Adso also left important hagiographical work including a Life of St Mansuy, first bishop of Toul,...

Antichrist   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

...13, 1). Among non-biblical sources of tradition, we find apocrypha Sibylline oracles (Tiburtine sibyl, 4th c.) and the Description of the last times by Pseudo-Methodius (late 7th c.). Conservative exegesis , following Augustine and Jerome , placed the coming of Antichrist just before the Second Coming of Christ and the Last Judgment : Isidore of Seville ( c. 570–636 ) and the Venerable Bede ( c. 673–735 ) expected him at the end of the sixth age, the age of the Church. Around 954 , Adso of Montier-en-Der synthesized the tradition in a...

Eschatology   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

...and Adso of Montier-en-der 's Epistola de Antichristo ( c. 950 ). This view provided hope in time of trouble by prophesying that the current political difficulties of Rome (the “Last Empire”according to traditional interpretations of Daniel 2) were merely a prelude to an imminent pre-Antichrist millennial period under the rule of a Last World Emperor. The third strand of medieval historical eschatology was also apocalyptic in its belief in the predictable imminence of the last events. The context within which this final version of general...

apocalyptic literature   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

...During the centuries of the late Middle Ages , apart from the traditional literature of commentaries, there appeared a rich literature of treatises de Antichristo , whose precursor was the book of Adso of Montier-en-Der (a work dating from c. 968 , but whose popularity continued through the 13th c.), and “prophecies”, which find an important example in the Sibylla tiburtina , circulated from the 11th century. Prophecies of this type developed in a multitude of texts, still little studied, whose redactions are intersected, and of which we have a...

Prophecy   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

... of Muhammad ), and within it the visionary had to prove by a perfect life the authenticity of the revelation he had received. So the early Middle Ages knew very few visionaries, some saintly Bishops showing proof of spiritual clairvoyance rather than prophecy, some clerics seeking in the Scriptures the future of the universal institutions ( Empire , papacy) that were to last until the tribulations of the last days. Adso of Montier-en-der 's De adventu Antechristi , written in the 10th c. for Queen Gerberge , was characteristic of this genre of...

demon, demonology   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

...the witches' sabbath . Antithesis of the body of the Church, all formed a body of which Satan was the head ( Adso of Montier-en-der ). Between these two bodies, combat raged, until the final unchaining foretold by the Apocalypse and sometimes felt to be imminent. The weapons available to the devil to extend his hold over men were manifold. By possession, he beleaguered bodies; by temptations , notably sexual, he aimed most particularly at exceptional souls, beginning with Christ and the saints ( Athanasius's Life of Antony , Golden Legend ). By...

Eschatology   Reference library

Thomas Fliethmann and David Gascoigne

The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine

...explicitly to Aug. This question of the recognizability of the judge is closely debated by the scholastics (Ott 145 f.). Aug. had been relatively restrained in his observations regarding the Antichrist. The reception of the Antichrist figure in the interpretation of Scripture thus took its inspiration not, primarily, from the relevant works of Aug., but from the text De ortu et tempore antichristi by Abbot Adso of Montier-en-Der. The Antichrist thus played a...

Apocalypse of John   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

... of Adso of Montier-en-Der (written for Gerberge , queen of Francia, c. 968 ) and its adaptations, as well as to the wide circulation of the predictions of the Sibylla tiburtina , but up to this time we have no elements to consider the Tyconian sequence as being interrupted in its understanding. We must remember however that the whole exegetical literature of the early Middle Ages is still very little studied; when particular analyses have been made, motifs of individual interest have often been found. We may cite especially the case of Beatus of...