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Joachimites
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Joachimites 

followers of Joachim of Floris, adherents of radical heretical movements in Western Europe in the 13th to 15th centuries.
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The Jewish messianism exacerbated by the expulsion from Spain found fertile ground in Christian millenarianism, partly of Joachimite origin, which had remained latent largely under Franciscan influence, in a convergence that caused growing disquiet in the orthodoxy of the Counter-Reformation.
The rhetoric of prophecy in Portuguese Renaissance literature by Macedo, Helder / Portuguese Studies
John, to which Leo's Bible is opened, had special significance in Joachimite and Amadeite circles.
Raphael's Portrait Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi ... by Minnich, Nelson H. / Renaissance Quarterly
Nevertheless, he demonstrates that a minority of the most disillusioned evangelicals - mostly artisans and a sprinkling of humanists - took up anabaptism, while a wider spectrum of tradesmen were drawn to Joachimite millenarianism.
Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City by Peterson, David S. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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