Marjorie Reeves

Beatrice Hirsch-Reich

The Figurae of Joachim of Fiore

Warwick Gould

This study of the medieval abbot (c. 1132-1202) presents the first documented evidence of Joachim's influence on such major figures at Michelet, Eliot, Arnold, Huysmans, Yeats, and others.

Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth Century

Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future

Honorary Fellow St Anne's and St Hugh's Colleges Marjorie Reeves

Joachim of Fiore has been described as the most singular and fascinating figure of mediaeval Christendom. This title explores his unique understanding of history and looks at the powerful influence of his ideas.

A Study in Medieval Millennialism

This title offers a 'map' of the influence of the original theology of Joachim of Fiore. It confirms the deep structures of visions of the future while questioning the persistence of Joachimist themes in the 20th-century fin de siècle.

Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Stephen Medcalf

Nicola Coldstream

David R Starkey

Originally published in 1981, The Later Middle Ages bridges the gap between modern and medieval language and literature, by introducing the social and intellectual milieu in which writers like Chaucer, Malory and Margery Kempe lived. It provides a unified and coherent account of the culture of late medieval England, and of the problems involved in viewing it, in relation to English literature. The book covers the history of ideas and education, art and architecture, and changes in the social, economic and political structure.

The Later Middle Ages

Joachim of Fiore proclaimed a philosophy of history which exercised a powerful influence in succeeding centuries. This book traces the influence of his prophecies concerning a Third Age of the Spirit to come, as later expressed in the themes of New Spiritual Men, Last World Emperor, Angelic Pope, and Renovatio Mundi. It shows that these ideas were not only the mainspring of various heterodox groups, but also engaged the attention of certain church leaders, university scholars, Renaissance thinkers, Protestant theologians, and political rulers down to the seventeenth century.

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