Prof. Matthias Riedl will deliver a lecture "Apocalyptic Platonism: The Thought of Thomas Müntzer" at 5 pm, on 2 June, Faculty of History of Vilnius University, Room 211. Prof. Matthias Riedl is an associate professor of history at Central European University, Vienna, and chair of CEU’s Advanced Certificate Program in Political Thought. He also taught at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Duke University, Durham, NC, and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. His research focuses on the relation between religion and politics in Western Christianity, from late antiquity to the early modern period. His current research is on the emergence of revolutionary apocalypticism in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity; and he’s writing a monograph on the German radical reformer Thomas Müntzer.

The lecture will be moderated by Dr. Povilas Dikavičius.
The lecture will be held in English.