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All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what kind of world-view preceded it? In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium takes us on a journey of exploration, through the world-views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, through the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, to the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth.Until around 1500 B.C., it was generally believed that once the world had been set in order by the gods, it was in essence immutable. However, it was always a troubled world. By means of flood and drought, famine and plague, defeat in war, and death itself, demonic forces threatened and impaired it. Various combat myths told how a divine warrior kept the forces of chaos at bay and enabled the world to survive. Sometime between 1500 and 1200 B.C., the Iranian prophet Zoroaster broke from that static yet anxious world-view, reinterpreting the Iranian version of the combat myth. For Zoroaster, the world was moving, through incessant conflict, toward a conflictless state-"cosmos without chaos." The time would come when, in a prodigious battle, the supreme god would utterly defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them forever, and so bring an absolutely good world into being. Cohn reveals how this vision of the future was taken over by certain Jewish groups, notably the Jesus sect, with incalculable consequences. Deeply informed yet highly readable, this magisterial book illumines a major turning-point in the history of human consciousness. It will be mandatory reading for all who appreciated The Pursuit of the Millennium.

Creation --- Cosmology --- Eschatology --- Last things (Theology) --- Religious thought --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics

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Property. --- Right of property. --- Property --- Right of property --- 347.23 --- 347.23 Eigendomsrecht --- Eigendomsrecht --- Ownership of property --- Private ownership of property, Right of --- Private property, Right of --- Property, Right of --- Property rights --- Right of private ownership of property --- Right of private property --- Right to property --- Civil rights --- Economics --- Possession (Law) --- Things (Law) --- Wealth --- Law and legislation --- Primitive property

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Contracts --- Performance (Law) --- Personality (Law) --- Property --- 347.45 <492> --- 347.45 <492> Bijzondere overeenkomsten --(algemeen)--Nederland --- Bijzondere overeenkomsten --(algemeen)--Nederland --- Economics --- Possession (Law) --- Things (Law) --- Wealth --- Mora (Civil law) --- Debtor and creditor --- Discharge of contracts --- Extinguishment of debts --- Agreements --- Contract law --- Contractual limitations --- Limitations, Contractual --- Commercial law --- Legal instruments --- Obligations (Law) --- Juristic acts --- Liberty of contract --- Third parties (Law) --- Law and legislation --- Theses --- Law of obligations. Law of contract --- Netherlands --- Primitive property

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Most scholarship in English on the political and social order of early medieval Europe concentrates on the Western Frankish regions. Warren Brown shifts the focus to the East, concentrating on conflicts and their resolutions to learn how a central authority could affect local societies in the Middle Ages. Brown delves into the rich archival materials of eighth- and ninth-century Bavaria, exploring how Bavarians handled conflicts both before and after the absorption of their duchy into the empire of Charlemagne. The ability to follow specific cases in remarkable detail allows Brown to depict the ways the conquered population reacted to the imposition of a new central authority; how that authority and its institutions were able to function in this far-flung outpost of Charlemagne's realm; and how the relationship between royal authority and local processes developed as the Frankish empire unraveled under Charlemagne's heirs. By drawing on the recent work of anthropologists and political scientists on topics such as dispute resolution and the dynamics of conquest and colonization, Brown considers issues larger than the procedures for handling conflict in the early Middle Ages: How could a ruler exercise power without the coercive resources available to the modern state? In what ways can a people respond to military conquest?

Carolingians. --- Property --- Power (Social sciences) --- Carolingiens --- Propriété --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- History. --- Histoire --- Bavaria (Germany) --- Europe --- Germany --- Bavière (Allemagne) --- Allemagne --- History --- Social conditions --- Religious life and customs --- Conditions sociales --- Vie religieuse --- Privileges and immunities --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Propriété --- Bavière (Allemagne) --- Carolingians --- Civilization, Medieval --- Economics --- Possession (Law) --- Things (Law) --- Wealth --- Immunities and privileges --- Immunity (Exemption) --- Constitutional law --- Criminal procedure --- Jurisdiction --- State's evidence --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Carlovingians --- Carolinians --- Law and legislation --- Holy Roman Empire --- Primitive property --- Property - Europe - History. --- Power (Social sciences) - Europe - History. --- Privileges and immunities - Europe - History.

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Persons (Law) --- Property. --- Human rights. --- 342.7 --- 347.77 --- eigendom --- recht (wetgeving, rechtspraak, rechtsbeginselen, juridische aspecten, aansprakelijkheid) --- Human rights --- Property --- Economics --- Possession (Law) --- Things (Law) --- Wealth --- Law of persons --- Personality (Law) --- Status (Law) --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Grondwettelijke rechten en vrijheden. Fundamentele rechten --- Industrieel eigendomsrecht. Commercieel eigendomsrecht. Geestelijk eigendomsrecht --- propriété --- droit (aspects juridiques, législation, jurisprudence, principes de droit, responsabilité) --- Law and legislation --- Persons (Law). --- 347.77 Industrieel eigendomsrecht. Commercieel eigendomsrecht. Geestelijk eigendomsrecht --- 342.7 Grondwettelijke rechten en vrijheden. Fundamentele rechten --- Primitive property