The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages
The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages

Author: Marjorie Reeves

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 9780198270300

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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.

The Prophetic Sense of History in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
The Prophetic Sense of History in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Author: Marjorie Reeves

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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The essays here collect the author's further researches since the publication of her pathbreaking Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages in 1969. In part stimulated by responses to the book, they also show the extent to which the field then opened up has now expanded. In the last forty years a cultural shift in the meaning of 'history' has brought to the forefront an interest in how people have charted their future by the signs given in their historical heritage. Both pessimistic and optimistic readings of history meet in medieval Western Europe and colour the thought, art, even the politics of the Renaissance. In particular, the powerful vision of Joachim of Fiore activated a reading of history which culminates in a flowering of a 'third age'. These essays attempt to portray some of the strange and moving shapes which thronged the imagination as men and women looked to their prophetic future.

Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time
Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time

Author: Leah DeVun

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780231145381

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In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Franciscan friar John of Rupescissa sent a dramatic warning to his followers: the end times were coming; the apocalypse was near. Rupescissa's teachings were unique in his era. He claimed that knowledge of the natural world, and alchemy in particular, could act as a defense against the calamity of the last days. He treated alchemy as medicine (his work was the conceptual forerunner of pharmacology), and reflected emerging technologies and views that sought to combat famine, plague, religious persecution, and war. In order to understand scientific knowledge as it is today, Leah DeVun asks that we revisit the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, and the Avignon Papacy through Rupescissa's eyes. The advances he pioneered, along with the exciting strides made by his contemporaries, shed critical light on future developments in medicine, pharmacology, and chemistry.

Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future
Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future

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

Publisher:

Published: 1999-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780750921510

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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.

Visions of the End
Visions of the End

Author: Bernard McGinn

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780231112574

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From millenarists to Antichrist hunters, from the Sibyls to the Hussites, Visions of the End is a monumental compendium spanning the literature of the Christian apocalyptic tradition from the period A.D. 400 to 1500, masterfully selected and complete with a comprehensive introduction and new preface.