Rethinking the Fifth Empire: António Vieira and the Clavis Prophetarum

It is this paper’s purpose to introduce António Vieira’s model of the Fifth Empire and to contextualize it within the biblical exegesis tendencies of his time. Vieira’s conceptualization is of utmost importance for understanding the intellectual and religious environment of seventeenth-century Portu...

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Main Author: Valdez,Maria Ana T. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1645-64322012000200003
Country:Portugal
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