Note 46 — Chapter III · - ‘THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL’
Reading edition
On Joachim’s writings, the problem of The Everlasting Gospel and Joachitism generally, see J. J. Döllinger, Prophecy and the Prophetic Spirit in the Christian Era (tr. A. Plummer, 1873), ch. vii; E. Renan, Nouvelles Études d’histoire religieuse (Paris, 1884; English ed., 1886); the Essay on Joachim in Franciscan Essays (1912), by E. G. Gardner, pp. 50-70; also E. Gebhart, L’Italie mystique; la renaissance religieuse au moyen âge (1908), esp. pp. 49-84, 183-253. The whole story of the Spiritual Franciscans, so far as it affected Italy, is told in this admirable work.