Cohn's book attempts to develop an interpretive
model for various millenarian movements in northern
Europe from the eleventh to the sixteenth century.
For Cohn, these movements were essentially social
revolutions, with the Jewish and Christian apocalyp-
tic traditions providing a framework within which re-
formers articulated their grievances and goals. At the
heart of the apocalyptic tradition { which by the later
Middle Ages included elements of Biblical prophecy,
the so-called Sibylline Oracles, and the writings of
Joachim of Fiore { was the belief that the world was
in the grip of evil forces and that, at some point, the
holy people of God would rise up, cleanse the earth,
and establish a perfect kingdom for the righteous.
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