Joachim of Fiore

January 1, 2026 - Joris-Karls Huysmans' novella Là-bas makes reference to Joachim de Fiore's millenarian eschatology in its concluding scenes, with several characters espousing similar views; presaging the protagonist's conversion to Catholicism. W. B. Yeats's short story "The Tables of the Law" tells about a single surviving copy of a certain book by Joachim of Flora and its powerful effects on its owner. Joachim, referred to as Joachim Abbas, is referenced in James Joyce's Ulysses and Giacomo Joyce and Stephen Hero.

According to Reeves "Joachimism" expected the present world to be reformed and made holier by new religious orders, by imperial or papal messiahs or by the gradual advent of a new age. Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future was originally published by SPCK in 1976 (Harper and Row published it in the United States).

This book explores his unique understanding of history, according to which a past 'age of the Father' and a present "age of the Son" would be followed by a third age, that of the Spirit.

December 11, 2023 - In the same century that St. Malachy wrote his cryptic predictions of history’s remaining popes, Cistercian abbot Joachim di Fiore put down his own mystical prophecies concerning future popes and the end of time.

April 6, 2022 - (pseud-) Gioacchino da Fiore. Vaticinia Pontificum. Illustrated manuscript on grey-blue paper, in Italian. Italy, end of the sixteenth century. Fol. 6v: Iohannes XXIII (‘Elatione’), and fol. 7r: Benedictus XIII (‘Li homini forti sara orbati de la Inuidia’). The Genus nequam prophecies are in fact largely based on the so-called “Leo Oracles,” a series of twelfth-century Byzantine prophecies attributed to Emperor Leo VI that portend the advent of a savior-emperor who restores unity to the empire.

(Figure: A schematic illustration from Joachim’s Liber Figurarum, depicting a seven-headed dragon from the Book of Revelation – one of the apocalyptic symbols central to his prophecies.) Joachim of Fiore is most famous for his visionary philosophy of history, often called his doctrine of the “Three Ages.” He taught that human history comprises three vast epochs or statuses, each governed by one Person of the Trinity and reflecting a progressive increase in spirituality.

July 20, 1998 - As guides through this crucial stage, Joachim prophesied the advent of two new orders of spiritual men, one of hermits to agonize for the world on the mountaintop and one a mediating order to lead men on to the new spiritual plane.

novi ordinis pertinens ad tertium statum ad instar supernae Jerusalem, “the constitution · of the new order of the third age according to image of the heavenly ... 2 Liber Figurarum. Il libro delle Figure dell’abate Gioacchino da Fiore.

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As the appointed year of 1260 approached, spurious works began to circulate under Joachim's name: De Oneribus Prophetarum, an Expositio Sybillae et Merlini ("Exposition of the Sibyl and Merlin") and commentaries on the prophecies of Jeremiah and Isaiah. Inspired by Jochimist apocalyptic visions, the Dulcinians and Brethren of the Free Spirit went so far as to engage in major violence against church property and wealthy bishops. The town of San Giovanni in Fiore, where Joachim founded a Cistercian abbey late in his life.

Divini vatis Abbatis Joachim Liber Concordiae novi ac veteris Testatmenti (Venice, 1519); Expositio magni prophetae Abbatis Joachim in Apocalipsim: Eiusdem Psalterium Decem Cordarum opus prope divinum (Venice, 1527); REUTER, Geschichte der religiösen Aufklärung im Mittelalter, II (Berlin, 1877); TOCCO, L'Eresia nel Medio Evo (Florence, 1884); DENIFLE, Das Evangelium aeternum und die Commission zu Anagni in Archiv fur Litteratur- und Kirchen-Geschichte, I (Berlin, 1885): HOLDER-EGGER, Cronica Fratris Salimbene de Adam Ordinis Minorum (Hanover, 1905-08); WICKSTEED, The Everlasting Gospel in Th

July 23, 2021 - Simply put, Fiore believed that the events recorded in the Old Testament prefigured those of the New, which in turn, predicted the future. This was linked to Joachim’s famous tripartite division of history, with each epoch corresponding to ...

This seminal work of medieval religious, political and historical thought has opened the way to a completely new understanding of medieval millennialism, apocalyptic thought and prophecy. Long unavailable, this book will have a strong appeal not only to students of the middle ages, but also to all those interested in the evolution of millenarian ideas and prophecies of a "new age".

August 31, 2024 - First edition, beautifully illustrated with the fine engraving of Giralamo Porro, of the medieval Papal prophecies, wrongly attributed to Joachim of Fiore, including a final prophecy predicting the fall of the Turkish Empire, the so called ‘Red Apple’ prophecy.

June 11, 2024 - Everything you believe about the world can be traced back to an apocalyptic prophet who lived in the twelfth century. Everything. I’m well-aware that [...]

May 10, 2022 - Joachim of Fiore developed the historical-continuous method for interpreting apocalyptic prophecies, influencing later Christian eschatology.

December 6, 2025 - Simply put, Fiore believed the events recorded in the Old Testament prefigured those of the New, which in turn, predicted the future. This was linked to Joachim’s famous tripartite division of history, with each epoch corresponding to a person ...

The analysis of the eschatological commentaries antecedent to Joachim of Fiore reveals that besides a number of unique features, Joachim’s hermeneutical framework primarily combines: (1) the historical periodization of Church history characteristic of the expositors in the Latin High Middle Ages, in the early Byzantine period, and Near-Eastern Christian exegesis, (2) Latin medieval tradition of Revelation exegesis dominated by the recapitulation principle and, (3) a Near-Eastern Christian (Armenian, Syrian, and Coptic) and Jewish system of prophetic interpretation using the “year-day” principle, coupled with the expectation of the future Sabbatical period, sometimes referred to as the millennium.

January 1, 2007 - How did Joachim’s apocalyptic thought influence his theological writings?add · Joachim's apocalyptic concerns, particularly his 'Pentecostal vision’ and 'Easter vision,' shaped his interpretation of scripture, marking a departure from traditional eschatology towards a more historical and dynamic prophetic framework. ... Studies in Church History. Subsidia, 1994 · Within the last decade noteworthy efforts have been made to provide for a better understanding of Joachim of Fiore through new editions of his work and the establishment of a more exact chronology for the events in his life.