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11 - Joachim of Fiore and the Apocalyptic Revival of the Twelfth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

By
Brett Edward Whalen
Edited by
Colin McAllister
Colin McAllister
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
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Summary

The twelfth-century abbot Joachim of Fiore numbers among the most important and influential Christian apocalyptic writers of the Middle Ages. This chapter explores the contours of Joachim’s ideas about the patterns of history, situating him and his works within the broader apocalyptic “revivalism” of the twelfth century.

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CrusadesRoman papacyBook of Revelationchurch reform
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The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature , pp. 190 - 211
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Selected Further Reading

Lerner, Robert. “Antichrists and Antichrist in Joachim of Fiore.” Speculum 60 (1985): 553–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McGinn, Bernard. The Calabrian Abbot: Joachim of Fiore in the History of Western Thought. New York: Macmillan, 1985.Google Scholar
Reeves, Marjorie. The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969; repr., Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.Google Scholar
Reeves, Marjorie, and Gould, Warwick. Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.Google Scholar
Reeves, Marjorie, and Hirsch-Reich, Beatrice. The Figurae of Joachim of Fiore. Oxford: Clarendon, 1972.Google Scholar
Reidl, Matthias, ed. A Companion to Joachim of Fiore. Leiden: Brill, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rubenstein, Jay. Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.Google Scholar
Tondelli, Leone, Reeves, Marjorie, and Hirsch-Reich, Beatrice, eds. Il libro delle figure dell’abate Gioachino da Fiore, 2 vols. Turin: Società Editrice Internazionale, 1953.Google Scholar
Wessley, Stephen E. Joachim of Fiore and Monastic Reform. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.Google Scholar
Whalen, Brett. Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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