Review: [untitled] Author(s): David Burr Reviewed work(s): The Feast of Saint Abraham: Medieval Millenarians and the

Jews by Robert E. Lerner Source: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 87, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 317-318 Published by: Catholic University of America Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25025941 Accessed: 08/09/2009 11:41
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have

given

a much more is of the topic. Attention detailed picture possible to the geography which resulted from the divi and to the castle-building into two kingdoms sion of Castile between and Le?n 1157 and 1230. Also con were are the properties of the Order of the Holy which sidered Sepulchre made incorporated

are studies in 1498. There into the Hospital of parish churches, minor and and of the of rural sumptuous hermitages, chapels, hospitals, palaces were in providing donations commanders. early-modern important Initially itself created others. from the of these buildings, the Hospital while Then, many fifteenth tervention benefices freed cerned from onwards, patronage century of individual commanders. came the under technical themselves the control constraints of came That to depend was on the in increasingly because the Hospital's were in part members poverty their artistic and were to advertise family arms. con their The

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In this tradition

what

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sees future

as a Joachite time. He be

in an apocalyptic he

gins in the twelfth century with Joachim of Fiore and ends in the fifteenth with
Nicholas Buldesdorf. thirteenth-century scissa, Frederick Along Franciscans the way (especially and Francesc pays Peter particular John Olivi), attention John of to the Rupe

of Brunswick,

Eiximenis.

to Lerner joachim went well the common view medieval According beyond that in the period after Antichrist the Jews would to Christianity. be converted a third age of history Instead he anticipated marked beneficial by "a mutually union of Christians and Jews." The Holy would offer clarification of both Spirit the Old would We what would showed and New be, are Testaments. words, how a linear The "neither new in Lerner's then shown from this clarification people profiting nor Gentile but 'spiritual.'" authors While considered fit into by Lerner a new all anticipated age that nor neither Olivi Joachim

Jew

the various progression.

is in some ways involve much interest

play a major a person; then the Baptist the process

reconciliation, Jewish-Christian a particular in delineating messianic would figure who role in its inception. connected the new age with such Rupescissa Frederick of Brunswick that person; wrote himself into the scenario as a John completed and finally Nicholas of Buldesdorf was that he himself the messianic figure.

heralding by

suggesting

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Nevertheless, terms third tianity; of linear

age would yet Olivi but

in be answered posed by this study cannot a offered that the Joachim tantalizing suggestion development. more to Chris involve much than the Jews converting simply in terms of straightforward conversion. So did Jewish thought question he complicated an imperial notion the matter nation, an by predicting idea he never merging converted that quite into the converted with people. reconciled

Rupescissa, Jews would

become

the Joachite-Olivian Frederick over

of Jews too predicted

and Gentiles that the

of Brunswick

an empire. Eiximenis life to the Joachite notion Testament would would

the Old of Adam Francis

preside his opinion but returned late in changed frequently an age in which of synthesis, the saints of predicting be honored those of the New. The feasts along with take their place of Buldesdorf The in the calendar echoed the those of alongside idea of a Jewish world to the law of "live according which suggests the ques dis third age. Thus

a single Jews would

and Abraham and Dominic.

Nicholas

a new but added empire the God of their fathers," that tion religion of what would not linear that said their would be

element: by which remain

Jews would he meant "the even

law of Moses,"

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in the

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was answered left of Judaism but a kaleidoscopic writers are significant "the Jews a special not were dignity."

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a time when that Jews had

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