ABSTRACT
Several studies allow pursuit of the real or imagined history of the millennium. Along with some facets of Hillel Schwartz’s book, see Richard Erdoes, a.d. 1000: Living on the Brink of Apocalypse (New York, 1988), which provides the most recent attempt to promote the legend. For the older version, see Jules Michelet, History of France, trans. Walter Kelly (London, 1844), vol. 1, pp. 336–340. On revisionism, see George Lincoln Burr, “The Year 1000 and the Antecedents of the Crusades,” American Historical Review 6 (1901): 429–439; Ferdinand Lot, “Le mythe des terreurs de l’an mille,” Mercure de France 301 (1947): 639–655; Georges Duby, L’an mil (Paris, 1947); Daniel Le Blevec, L’an mil (Paris, 1976); Henri Focillon, L’an mil (Paris, 1952); A. Vasiliev, “Medieval Ideas About the End of the World: East and West,” Byzantion 16 (1942/43): 462–502; and Daniel Mil, “L’an mil: Un problème d’historiographie moderne,” History and Theory 27 (1988): 261–281. Richard Landes presents his approach in “The Year 1000,” The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J. Strayer (New York, 1989), vol. 12, pp. 722–723, and “Between Aristocracy and Heresy: Popular Participation in the Limousin Peace of God, 994–1033,” in T. Head and R. Landes, eds., The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response in France Around the Year 1000 (Ithaca, 1992), pp. 184–218. For the history of the use of the myth, see Christian Amalvi, “Du bon usage des terreurs de l’an mil,” L’Histoire 138 (1978): 10–15.
