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Weltalterlehre – I vecchi mondi all’origine della terra – The old worlds at the origin of the earth or Ancient cosmology [Krichbaumer]

Weltalterlehre – I vecchi mondi all’origine della terra – The old worlds at the origin of the earth or Ancient cosmology [Krichbaumer]

Krichbaumer, Benedikt
30.12.2021
Krichbaumer, Benedikt (2021). Die Weiterentwicklung der antiken Vorstellung der Weltalter in Otto von Freisings „Chronica sive historia de duabus civitatibus“. Ars docendi, 9, dicembre 2021.

In this essay, Benedikt Krichbaumer (Munich) analyses the development of the so-called Weltalterlehre (the old worlds at the origin of the earth) in Christianity, particularly in the work of the historian and bishop Otto von Freising.