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.
- ISBN10 0198243324
- ISBN13 9780198243328
- Publish Date November 1969
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 September 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 590
- Language English