...reached its nadir, partly owing to the general insecurity, and partly to the fact that there was a general belief that the world would come to an end in the year 1000. The laxity of moral principles is perhaps most clearly shown in the tortuous diplomacy of the...

...chosen. Unfortunately, some errors have crept in, such as the statement on page 42 that " there was a general belief that the world would come to an end in the year 1000"; but the book is readable and interesting, and the length of many of the biographies is such...

...including mistakes and misapprehensions, which are reiterated with naive seriousness. Thus, " there was a general belief that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 " (page 42) ; Gregory VII " gained the title of Great" (page 84) ; and on the eve of the Revolution...

...intensity in the first half of the X century. Reasons for this decline are not difficult to find. The belief that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 may have played some part, although not so important a one as has been believed.1 More important...

...enthroned Pope on April 2, 999, and assumed the appellation of Silvester the Second. It was then a general belief that the world would come to an end in the following year, a catastrophe which to many seemed the more imminent from the election of a chief pastor...

...take Bradford-oil- Avon as a type of an 8th century church. It is supposed that the prevalence of the belief that the world would come to an end in the year 1000, of which there is frequent mention in documents by writers of the time, led to a general neglect...

...much as usual ; the year 1001 began and still the world endured, with every sign of continuing. The belief that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 was associated with, if not absolutely derived from, a much older belief entertained by the earliest...

...in bones and be but pyramidally extant is a fallacy in duration," particularly in the light of his belief that the world would come to an end in the year 2000. Noting the difficulty of reading "bare inscriptions" on ancient graves, Browne ridicules the...

...terrifying one for the Christians of the world. Respected theologians had been predicting for some time that the world would come to an end in the year AD 1000, which was precisely 1,000 years after the birth of Christ. Looking around themselves throughout the...

...preRenaissance history that we are endeavoring to make recur today. As an illustration, there was a widespread belief that the world would come to an end in the year 1000. It didn't, of course, but that does not deter us from making the same prognostication today....