Author : Stephen E. Wessley
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Joachim of Fiore and Monastic Reform by : Stephen E. Wessley
Download or read book Joachim of Fiore and Monastic Reform written by Stephen E. Wessley and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herald of a future third age (status) for mankind, the medieval abbot Joachim of Fiore (d. 1202) attracted and affected many individuals from Dante to Columbus. This book concentrates on the beginning of the story: it proves Joachim intended that he and his own order of monks, the Florensians, were to initiate the beginning of the third age. Using a variety of documents, Stephen Wessley uncovers Joachim's motivations when he broke away from the Cistercian monks to found his own reformed monastic group. Joachim's intended role for his Florensian monks, to be initiators of the new age, Wessley argues, was preserved by them well after Joachim's death. Drawing on manuscript evidence, the author traces this Florensian ideology through a period of major crises in the order to its appropriation by Franciscans.