1st Edition
Abbot Joachim of Fiore and Joachimism Selected Articles
By E. Randolph Daniel
Copyright 2011
374 Pages
by
Routledge
374 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the articles included in this collection, Professor Daniel argues that Abbot Joachim of Fiore was a disciple of Bernard of Clairvaux whose tertius status was reformist, not millenialist. Like the other reformists, Gerhoch of Reichersberg and Hildegard of Bingen, Joachim looked forward to the coming of a thoroughly reformed, holy church to be achieved in the near future by reform of the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Joachim of Fiore: new editions and studies; The double procession of the Holy Spirit in Joachim of Fiore's understanding of history; Abbot Joachim of Fiore: the De ultimis tribultationibus; Joachim of Fiore: patterns of history in the Apocalypse; A new understanding of Joachim: the concords, the exile and the exodus; Abbot Joachim of Fiore and the conversion of the Jews; Double Antichrists or antichrists: Abbot Joachim of Fiore; Heresy and Abbot Joachim of Fiore; A re-examination of the origins of Franciscan Joachitism; The manuscripts of the Liber de Concordia and early Joachimism; Apocalyptic conversion: the Joachite alternative to the crusades; Reformist apocalypticism and the Friars Minor; Reformers or revolutionaries? Sabatier, Francis and Joachim; St Bonaventure's debt to Joachim; Symbol or model? St Bonaventure's use of St Francis; English Joachimism, 1300-1500: the Columbinus prophecy (with Kathryn Kerby-Fulton); Henry of Kirkstede's De antichristo et de fine mundi; Medieval apocalypticism, millennialism and violence; Index.
Biography
E. Randolph Daniel is a is professor emeritus of the University of Kentucky, where he taught Medieval History.
'... includes a substantial amount of research on medieval apocalypticism and is a good resource for scholars of the medieval church.' Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae
