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Epistola ad Gerbergam reginam de ortu et tempore Antichristi
treatise by Adso of Montier-en-Der
Also known as: “Libellus de Antichristi”
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Christian myths and legends
- In Christianity: The Middle Ages
…in his popular and influential Epistola ad Gerbergam reginam de ortu et tempore Antichristi (“Letter to Queen Gerberga on the Place and Time of Antichrist”), a mirror image in the negative of the lives of Jesus and the saints. Adso’s treatise became the standard account of the life of the…
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- In Adso of Montier-en-Der
…important work, however, was the Epistola ad Gerbergam reginam de ortu et tempore Antichristi (“Letter to Queen Gerberga on the Place and Time of Antichrist”), also known as the Libellus de Antichristi (“Little Book on the Antichrist”). Written at Gerberga’s request, possibly because of contemporary fears of the imminence of…
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