HoP 326 - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - the Later Orthodox Tradition
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The End of the World
Scallarius thought the apocalypse was nigh as the Ottomans were closing in. Christians had been making this sort of prediction for a long, long time. Eschatological expectations were especially high around the year 1000. When the world failed to end with either a bang or a whimper, prophecies didn't go away but just got more vague about the dating.
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