The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess: The Paths of Prophecy in Reformation Europe

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203 Index  1588, as year of prognostications, 64, 156, 180 n. 14 Alofresant prophecy, 103, 124 Amsdorf, Nikolaus von, 50–51 Anabaptists and Anabaptism, 12, 21, 72, 96–97, 98, 111, 114. See also Franck, Sebastian; Hoffman, Melchior ; Jost, Ursula; Schwenckfeld, Caspar Ancxt, Maria, widow of Jacob van Liesvelt , 13–16, 23 Angelic Pope, 2, 33, 53, 63, 114, 120 Antichrist, 2, 3, 8, 20, 40, 61; in religious polemic, 50, 63, 106, 115 Antwerp, 10, 11–16, 21, 23–28, 35–36, 41–43, 50, 58, 61–62, 64, 66, 70, 72–76, 94, 100, 105–6, 112–15, 124, 129; Calvinist revolt in, 74–76 Apiarius, Samuel, printer of Basel, 76, 80–84, 86–88, 92, 100, 102, 114– 16 apocalyptic narrative and end-time drama, 2, 29, 36, 40–41, 61, 63, 114. See also Angelic Pope; Antichrist ; false emperor, tyrannical; false prophets; Gog and Magog; Jews, conversion of, in end-time narrative; Last Emperor; preachers, two righteous apocalypticism, 2, 3 astrology, 3, 4, 89, 107, 112. See also Carion, Johann; comets; eclipses; Leowitz, Cyprian; Pflaum, Jakob; prognostications, astrological, and annual practicas; prophecies, interaction with astrological prognostications ; Stöffler, Johannes Augsburg, Peace of, 4, 8, 18, 21, 63, 114. See also Schmalkaldic War authorial name, confusion and transfer of, 9, 22, 26, 40, 65, 66, 117, 129– 30 Aytinger, Wolfgang, 51 Balhorn, Johann, printer of Lübeck, 66–70, 87 Basel, 9, 76, 80–81, 86–87, 94, 100, 103–6, 112–15, 125, 129 Beck, Balthasar: printer of Strasbourg, 96 Birch tree prophecy, 120 Birgitta of Sweden: Onus mundi, 20, 51 broadside: as medium, 5 Brussels, 12, 15 Bucer, Martin, 98 Caesareus, Nikolaus, 58–59, 65, 122, 129 Calvin, Jean, 98, 103 204 • Index Calvinism and Reformed Protestantism, 9, 12, 21, 72–76, 85–87, 94, 98– 106, 112, 114–15, 119 cardinal directions, as visionary structure , 65, 77–79, 81, 97–98 Carion, Johann, 6, 7, 8 Catholicism, 14–15, 51, 56, 61, 64, 73, 74–75, 84, 86–87, 99–102, 106, 112, 114, 180 n. 18 Cedar of Lebanon prophecy, 125 censorship and imperial printing edicts, 11, 12–14, 21–22, 24–25, 36, 42, 61, 124. See also hidden transcripts Charles IX, king of France, 101, 104 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 4, 12, 18–19, 49, 58, 61–63, 73, 103 clerical poverty, 17, 19–20, 29–30, 51, 55, 116 comets, 3, 66, 81, 89, 107 confessionalization and LutheranReformed conflict, 4, 49, 72–76, 86, 87, 98–106, 112, 114–15, 124, 126 Copp, Johann, 17 Coppijn, Nicolaus, 16 Dasypodius, Konrad, 108 Dutch Revolt, 10, 14, 16, 51, 72–76, 105, 113–14, 116 eclipses, 18, 65, 89, 90, 91, 107, 108, 181 n. 23 Egenolff, Christian, printer of Frankfurt, 46, 48, 69, 134, 149–50, 176 n. 22 Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy and governor of the Netherlands, 12, 24 Extract of Various Prophecies (of Johannes Lichtenberger and Joseph Grünpeck ), 7, 47, 48–49, 123, 149–50 Faber, Wenzel, 6 false emperor: tyrannical, 31, 32, 40–41, 42, 61, 120 false prophets, 2, 32, 40, 51, 53 Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 21, 63 Ferrer, Vincent: pseudo, On the End of the World, 20, 41, 51, 123 Fischart, Johann, 10, 104–114 Flacius, Mathias: called Illyricus, 50–52, 61, 70, 75–76, 95, 105–6 flood: predictions and panic of 1524, 17, 117, 123 Formula of Concord, 100, 106 Fraet, Frans, 10, 23–28, 35, 36, 41–43, 45, 51, 56, 58, 61, 64, 65, 70–71, 115, 127–28, 130 France, king of France, 2, 18, 31, 39, 62, 70, 76, 80, 83, 97, 104, 117, 120–21, 153. See also Charles IX, king of France; Francis I, king of France; Henry III, king of France; Huguenots and French Protestantism ; Louis XIV, king of France Francis I, king of France, 62 Franck, Sebastian, 106 Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 62 Friedrich III, Count Palatinate of the Rhine, 97 Friess, Wilhelm, 8–11 first prophecy of, 8, 10, 22, 25–76, 94, 115–18, 120–21 edition, 133–50 translation, 29–35 first and second prophecies compared , 76–77, 80, 83, 85, 87, 100, 110, 113–18, 122–26, 130 printed editions, 7–8, 157–67 pseudonymous author or historical person, 9, 11, 22, 27–28, 129 second prophecy of, 8, 76–112, 116– 20, 122 edition, 151–56 translation, 77–80 Willem de Vriese: prognostications of, 17–23, 41, 65–66, 122–23, 128 Füger, Caspar...