The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

5 best books like The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (Norman Cohn): The Mandarins, Silencing the Past, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Glass Bees, Mysteries

The Mandarins

Author	Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN	0007203942

In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on those who surrounded her -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler -- and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects...

Silencing the Past

Author	Michel-Rolph Trouillot
ISBN	0807043117

If Marx, Foucault, and Howard Zinn wrote a book together, it would probably look something like Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past. This isn't a slur, though; as you can tell from my five-star rating, I obviously appreciated the book, its author's cobbled personal reflections plus broader...

Mother Courage and Her Children

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls...

The Glass Bees

Author	Ernst Jünger
ISBN	0940322552

In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of...

Mysteries

Author

Knut Hamsun

In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming,...