Apocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture

Historian John Jeffries Martin traces narratives of the Apocalypse over the last 500 years in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions in his new book, A Beautiful Ending. This discussion about the culture of Apocalypse follows (and is the second part of) an interview we began on the New Books in History Podcast which was a historical discussion.

Professor Martin is an Early Modern Historian at Duke University. His earlier books include Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City (1993), and Myths of Renaissance Individualism (2004). He is also editor of several books, including The Renaissance World (2007), which I remember reading as a graduate student.

• Professor Martin’s faculty website at Duke University
• Professor Martin’s books on Amazon.com
• First Half of this Interview: New Books in History
• Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
• E. S. O. Martin, What We Talk About When We Talk About the Apocalypse:
• Howard Zinn and Christopher Columbus on The Sopranos

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