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Malcolm Bull

  • Conversations about the End of Time by Umberto Eco and Stephen Jay Gould
  • Apocalypses: Prophesies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs throughout the Ages by Eugen Weber
  • Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium by Richard Popkin and David Katz

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Malcolm Bull is the head of art history and theory at the Ruskin in Oxford. His books include Seeing Things Hidden: Apocalypse, Vision and Totality.

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