Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom : A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary / David Burr.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Burr, David, Author.

Series:

• Anniversary Collection
• The Middle Ages Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Olivi, Pierre Jean, 1248 or 1249-1298. Lectura super Apocalypsim.
• Bible. Revelation--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Genre:

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 280 p. )

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Everyone who knows anything at all about Petrus Iohannis Olivi knows that his Apocalypse commentary was censured; yet opinions on that condemnation vary. The basic facts are clear. After Olivi's death in 1298, his writings were suppressed by the Franciscan order, yet his tomb at Narbonne became such a popular pilgrimage site that by the second decade of the fourteenth century the crowds were said to rival those a the Porziuncula in Assisi. In 1318 Olivi's body was unobtrusively exhumed and removed to an undisclosed location. The attacks on Olivi had come to concentrate on this Revelation commentary, and with good reason. The spirituals found it increasingly relevant to their situation. By 1318 John had ordered an investigation which led to the report of an eight-man commission in 1319. He then submitted particular passages from Oivi's commentary to individual theologians before he himself condemned it in 1326. Those are the facts. In this book David Burr reconsiders their significance.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• 1. Joachism and the Eternal Gospel
• 2. Respectable Apocalyptic
• 3. Olivi before 1298
• 4. The Fifth Period
• 5. The Dawning Sixth Period
• 6. The Double Antichrist
• 7. The Apocalyptic Timetable
• 8. Life after Antichrist
• 9. The Condemnation Process, 1318-19
• 10. The Condemnation Process, 1322-26
• 11. The Significance of the Condemnation
• Bibliography of Works Cited
• Index
• Backmatter

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274) and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 9781512800944
• 1512800945
• 9780585116891
• 058511689X

OCLC:

979751349