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Joachim of Fiore as Political inker

2016
According to Marjorie Reeves, Joachim of Fiore was not a political thinker. If in the following pages I attempt to show that political reection is not at the periphery but at the centre of Joachim’s thought, this is not to dispute the results of Marjorie Reeves’s research.
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Antichrists and Antichrist in Joachim of Fiore

Speculum, 1985
Conversations with the Calabrian abbot Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135-1202) had a way of turning to the imminent advent of Antichrist: "Antichrist was coming very soon," Joachim might say, or "Antichrist was already born in Rome," or "the age culminating in Antichrist's persecutions will begin in a mere four years."1 It is hence not surprising that Joachim ...
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Joachim of Fiore (c.1135–1202)

2018
Joachim was a charismatic monastic reformer and inventive scriptural exegete whose study of the Bible led him to propound complex theories of history. Especially interested in the Apocalypse as a guide to history, he believed that the advent of the Antichrist and a violent end of the age were imminent.
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A Companion to Joachim of Fiore

2018
Joachim of Fiore (c.1135-1202) remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of medieval Christianity. In his own time, he was an influential advisor to the mighty and powerful, widely respected for his prophetic exegesis and decoding of the apocalypse. In modern times, many thinkers, from Thomas Müntzer to Friedrich Engels, have hailed him
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