Paradise Postponed: Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism

Figures. Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Part One: Speculum mundi, sive harmonia trium voluminum: the hermetic pre-history of Alsted's millenarianism, 1610-24. 2. Volumen historicum seu experimentalis: encyclopedic chronology. 3. Volumen coelestis sive astrologicum: astrological history. 4. Volumen biblicus seu propheticus: prophetic numerology. Part Two: Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis: the origins of Alsted's millenarianism, 1619-27. 5. The Thirty Years War and Alsted's eschatological crisis, 1619-25. 6. The sources of the Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis. 7. Conclusions. Appendix: Two sources of the Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis. Select Bibliography. Index.