Morton W. Bloomfield

The Penetration of Joachism into Northern Europe

BETWEEN the death of Joachim of Fiore in 12021 and the bitter dispute over the Eternal Evangel2 centering in Paris in 1254-56 lie the somewhat obscure beginnings of the Joachite movement, a movement destined to play an important role in the history of the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. After the flare-up over the Eternal Evangel the history of Joachism is fairly well known, but the full story of the early days of the movement, the period which produced one of the most important pseudo-Joachite works, the Super Hieremiam, and which saw the introduction of Joachims writings to the Franciscan Order, has not yet been written. It has been common to attribute the spread of Joachite ideas almost exclusively to the Franciscans3 and to trace this dissemination no further back than

Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America

George Peddy Cuttino, distinguished scholar of diplomatic and diplomacy, died in Atlanta, Georgia, on 4 October 1991 in his seventy-eighth year. He was born in Newman, Georgia, on 9 March 1914. When Cuttino entered Swarthmore College in 1931, he assumed that he was heading towards a career as a diplomat, but Mary Albertsons seminar soon turned his thoughts to medieval history. After graduating with highest honors in 1935, he received an M.A. from the University of Iowa the following year. He then proceeded on to Oxford, the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship, and for the next two years he studied at Oriel College. Maurice Powicke, already the Regius Professor, was his official tutor, but increasingly he sought guidance and inspiration from Vivian Galbraith, then a Reader in Diplomatic and the scholar whom Cuttino regarded as having had the greatest formative influence on his own development. He received his D.Phil. in 1938, after which he spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Londons Institute of Historical Research.