Abbot Joachim of Fiore and Joachimism

Selected Articles

E. Randolph Daniel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781409424017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040234204
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: World History

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 episcopate and the clergy. The status of the Holy Spirit was the culmination of the preceding status, not a radically new beginning. Apocalypticism in both its reformist and in its imperialist versions was part of the mainstream, despite the efforts of the schoolmen to suppress it. The author also sheds significant new light on apocalyptic thinking in the mid-fourteenth century with a thorough analysis of Henry of Kirkstede's vade mecum, Cambridge Corpus Christi 404 and his first edition of Henry's De antichristo et de fine mundi. This study, and three others, are published here for the first time.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I Joachim of Fiore: new editions and studies
• II The double procession of the Holy Spirit in Joachim of Fiore's understanding of history
• III Abbot Joachim of Fiore: the De ultimis tribulationibus
• IV Joachim of Fiore: patterns of history in the Apocalypse
• V A new understanding of Joachim: the concords, the exile, and the exodus
• VI Abbot Joachim of Fiore and the conversion of the Jews
• VII Double Antichrist or antichrists: Abbot Joachim of Fiore
• VIII Heresy and Abbot Joachim of Fiore
• IX A re-examination of the origins of Franciscan Joachitism
• X The manuscripts of the Liber de concordia and early Joachimism
• XI Apocalyptic conversion: the Joachite alternative to the crusades
• XII Reformist apocalypticism and the Friars Minor
• XIII Reformers or revolutionaries? Sabatier, Francis and Joachim
• XIV St Bonaventure's debt to Joachim
• XV Symbol or Model? St Bonaventure's use of St Francis
• XVI English Joachimism, 1300–1500: the Columbinus Prophecy (with Kathryn Kerby-Fulton)
• XVII Henry of Kirkstede's De antichristo et de fine mundi
• XVIII Medieval apocalypticism, millennialism and violence
• Index