Kretschmar, Georg: Die Offenbarung des Johannes: Die Geschichte ihrer Auslegung im 1. Jahrtausend. Calwer Theologische Monographien, B9. Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1985. 164 pp.

Contents (apart from foreword, list of abbreviations and abbreviated references)

I. Jewish apocalyptic (sic) as the background of traditional material for Revelation (pp. 11-18)
1. Apocalyptic as prophecy
2. Book of Daniel

II. The pictorial Book of Promises (pp. 19-68)
1. Christian apocalyptic
2. The origins of Revelation
3. Intention and characteristics
4. The structure of Revelation

III. Revelation in Early Christianity (pp. 69-79)
1. Early Christian apocalyptic and Revelation
2. Christian chiliasm
3. Gnostic reception
4. Irenaeus and Hippolytus, Methodius

IV. Revelation in the Greek Church and the rest of the Orient (pp. 80-90)
1. Acceptance and influence of Revelation
2. Christian apocalyptic and interpretation of history besides Revelation

V. Revelation in the Latin Church (pp. 91-115)
1. Early Christian heritage: Victorinus of Poetovio
2. Church Controversy: Tyconius and Augustine
3. Learned collectors: Jerome, Cassiodor, Primasius

VI. Revelation in the Middle Ages of the West (pp. 116-160)
1. Collecting and sieving the ancient heritage
a) Britain: Beda
b) Spain: Beatus
c) Italy: Ambrosius Autpertus

a) The Carolingian Renaissance
b) Book paintings
c) Commentators

3. The High Middle Ages
a) Ottonic, imperial theology
b) Anti-Christ and the end of the world
c) Revelation in the Investiture Controversy
d) The Crusades and the theology of the House of Hohenstaufen

4. Exposition of Scripture and interpretation of history
a) The methods of theology
b) Experience of history and interpretation of Scripture
c) Epilogue: Change into a new chiliasm

Joachim of Fiore. Expositio in Apocalypsim. Frankfurt am Main: Minerva, 1964. 224 pp.

Joachim’s Expositio in Apocalypsim: Commentary on the Apocalypse is his main work on Revelation. According to Joachim’s works: chronology, editions, and manuscripts, the commentary was written, re-written and revised between 1183-1184 and 1200.

In the same period, he also wrote a series of essays, e.g. the Praefatio.

This edition is a facsimile of the 1st edition, published in Venice in 1527 by F. Bindoni and M. Pasini. It includes the text of Revelation.

From International Center for Joachimist Studies

“Joachim composed this “general introduction”, to the apocalypse between 1188 and 1192. In the Praephatio super Apocalypsim the Joachimist theory of Trinitarian ‘status’ is explained. The ancient patristic doctrine of the six Ages of the world is replaced by the later doctrine of the seven periods of the Age.” (Quoted from here)

References (Quoted from here):

• Praephatio super Apocalipsim, ed. K.-V. SELGE, Eine Einführung Joachims von Fiore in die Johannesapokalypse, in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 46 (1990), pp. 85-131. Available here (login necessary)
• See also GIOACCHINO DA FIORE, Introduzione all’Apocalisse, a c. di K.-V. SELGE, trad. it. di G. L. Potestà, Roma 1995

McGinn, Bernard. The Calabrian Abbot: Joachim of Fiore in the History of Western Thought. New York; London: Macmillan; Collier Macmillan, 1985. xix + 261 pp.

A good place to start, as regards Joachim.

Joachim of Fiore. Enchiridion super Apocalypsim: Edited with notes and introduction. Studies and Texts, 78. Ed. Edward Kilian Burger. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1986. 114 pp.

Joachim of Fiore (Joachim of Flora; Gioacchino da Fiore), d. 1135 – March 30, 1202, was a very influential theologian. His interpretation of Revelation caused a renewal of the ancient chiliasm, and he still has followers.

The Enchiridion was written 1194-1196 according to International Center for Joachimist Studies. Joachim wrote several other pieces on Revelation (see