The Real History of the End of the World (2010)
The Real History of the End of the World
“We have been brought to the sunset of this life.
—Joachim of Fiore, Letter to the Abbot of Vadona The life and experiences of Joachim of Fiore (or Flora) demonstrate the drastically different attitudes of the twelfth century toward the Apocalypse compared to those of later centuries. Joachim’s radical, new interpretations were generally welcomed by popes, nobility, and commoners—that is, as much as anyone understood them.
He was born in 1135 in the Italian town of Calabria. His father, Maur...o, was a notary attached to the Sicilian court, at that time one of the most diverse and open-minded in Europe. I’ve found no reference to prove this but, if Joachim’s father was really named Mauro, it might indicate that he was a Muslim convert to Christianity. It has also been suggested that the family had converted from Judaism, mainly because of a sermon directed against Joachim by the Cistercian monk Geoffrey of Auxerre in which he accuses Joachim of having been born a Jew and hiding his Jewish identity.MoreLess
—Joachim of Fiore, Letter to the Abbot of Vadona The life and experiences of Joachim of Fiore (or Flora) demonstrate the drastically different attitudes of the twelfth century toward the Apocalypse compared to those of later centuries. Joachim’s radical, new interpretations were generally welcomed by popes, nobility, and commoners—that is, as much as anyone understood them.
He was born in 1135 in the Italian town of Calabria. His father, Maur...o, was a notary attached to the Sicilian court, at that time one of the most diverse and open-minded in Europe. I’ve found no reference to prove this but, if Joachim’s father was really named Mauro, it might indicate that he was a Muslim convert to Christianity. It has also been suggested that the family had converted from Judaism, mainly because of a sermon directed against Joachim by the Cistercian monk Geoffrey of Auxerre in which he accuses Joachim of having been born a Jew and hiding his Jewish identity.MoreLess
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