1. Introduction -- One. Speculum mundi, sive harmonia trium voluminum: the hermetic pre-history of Alstedโ{128}{153}s millenarianism, 1610โ{128}{147}24 -- 2. Volumen historicum seu experimentalis: encyclopedic chronology -- 3. Volumen coelestis sive astrologicum: astrological history -- 4. Volumen biblicus seu propheticus: prophetic numerology -- Two. Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis: the origins of Alstedโ{128}{153}s millenarianism, 1619โ{128}{147}27 -- 5. The Thirty Years War and Alstedโ{128}{153}s eschatological crisis, 1619โ{128}{147}25 -- 6. The sources of the Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis -- 7. Conclusions -- i. Johannes Piscator, โ{128}{152}Meditatio de mille annis quorum fit mentio Apoc. 20 v. 2 quarum fit mentio apoc. 20. v. 2, et deinque nee non de resurrectione prima cujus fit mentio v. 5. et 6.โ{128}{153}, -- ii. Christoph Besold, โ{128}{152}De Hebraeorum ad Christum salvatorem nostrum conversione conjectaneaโ{128}{153}, -- Select Bibliography