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COHN (Norman). Na Senda do Milénio. Lisboa. 1981. - COHN (Norman) Na Senda do Milénio . Milenaristas Revolucionários e Anarquistas Místicos da Idade Média. Tradução de Fernando Neves e António Vasconcelos. Lisboa: Editorial Presença, 1981. 336 pp.: il.; 240 mm. Portuguese translation of The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages , originally published in 1957 and revised and expanded in 1970. This is one of the most influential studies on millenarian movements and revolutionary and anarchist sects that arose among the uprooted poor of medieval Europe, from the time of the Crusades to the Anabaptists of the 16th century, analyzing how prophecies of a final battle between Christ and the Antichrist merged with the material aspirations of the most disadvantaged populations, giving rise to movements that combined apocalyptic fervor and a yearning for subversion of the social and ecclesiastical order. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate