Church History, December 1st, 1999
Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages. By Eugen Weber. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 294 pp. n.p. Eugen Weber, a distinguished historian of modern Europe with a special interest in France, acknowledges in the introduction to this volume that he has written what he calls "a travel book" (5). He means a volume not intended for specialists, but rather addressed to those who are simply curious about the topics identified in the subtitle. Such curiosity, he correctly states, "nourishes historians." Weber's curiosity drove him to read "hundreds ...
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