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Apocalypse, Tendency, Crisis: In a time of crisis apocalyptic desires and fantasies become pressing and real. Norman Cohn’s In Pursuit of the Millennium offers a secret history of the periodic emergence of a ‘revolutionary eschatology’ in the Middle Ages in response to a collapsing social order, immiseration, disease and war. Responding to crisis these dreamers dared to imagine an apocalypse that would turn the world upside down, and create a new heaven on earth in which Princes would bow to peasants. Of course the apocalypse that became real was often the apocalypse of repression.
