Visions, Prophecies and Divinations ─ Early Modern Messianism and Millenarianism in Iberian America, Spain and Portugal

One of the first English-language collections of essays dedicated to the millenarianism in the early modern Iberian world,Visions, Prophecies and Divinations offers an introduction to the complex phenomena of prophecy and vision in Spanish and Portuguese Empires.

Luis Filipe Silverio Lima, Ph.D. (2005), University of Sao Paulo, teaches Early Modern History at Unifesp. He has published books and several articles on Portuguese Empire and prophetism, includingImperio dos sonhos: narrativas profeticas, sebastianismo e messianismo brigantino (2010).Ana Paula Torres Megiani, Ph.D (2001), University of Sao Paulo (Brasil), teaches Iberian History at University of Sao Paulo (USP). She has published books and several articles about D. Sebastiao of Portugal, and Monarchy Habsburg’s in Portugal, Spain and Empire (1580-1650). Contributors are: Cristina Pompa; Eduardo Natalino dos Santos; Francisco Moreno Carvalho; Jacqueline Hermann; Joao Carlos Goncalves Serafim; Marcos Antonio Lopes Veiga; Marcus De Martini; Maria Ana T. Valdez; Mark Cooper Emerson; and Stefania Pastore.