Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides the ideal introduction to what reformist apocalypticism meant for the formation of Medieval Europe, from the Fall of Rome to the twelfth century.

Introduction; Chapter 1: "The Chronicle of Hydatius: a historical guidebook to the last days of the Western Roman Empire"; Chapter 2: "To be found prepared: eschatology and reform rhetoric ca. 570-ca. 640"; Chapter 3: "The final countdown and the reform of the liturgical calendar in the early Middle Ages"; Chapter 4: "Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii"; Chapter 5: "Creating futures through the lens of revelation in the rhetoric of the Carolingian Reform ca. 750 to ca. 900"; Chapter 6: "Eschatology and reform in early Irish law: the evidence of Sunday legislation"; Chapter 7: "Apocalypse, eschatology and the interim in England and Byzantium in the tenth and eleventh centuries"; Chapter 8: "Apocalypticism and the rhetoric of reform in Italy around the year 1000"; Chapter 9: "This time. Maybe this time. Biblical commentary, monastic historiography, and Lost Cause-ism at the turn of the first millennium"; Chapter 10: "Against the silence: twelfth-century Augustinian reformers confront apocalypse"; Chapter 11: Afterword