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Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Monk’s Beatus Apocalypses Warned of The End of the World [Ancient Origins, 2022]

Title:
Monk’s Beatus Apocalypses Warned of The End of the World
 
Author:
Jake Leigh-Howarth
 
Published:
Ancient Origins, 5 April 2022
 
From the article:
Based on interpretations of the Book of Revelations, the Commentary on the Apocalypses, written between 776 and 784 by visionary monk Beatus of Liébana, were a series of manuscripts that foretold the end of the world. Produced deep into the Islamic conquest of Spain in the 8th century, the apocalyptic themes were fervently reinforced by the contemporary destruction of Christianity in the Iberian Peninsula by warriors of Islam.