The first book to deal with all the principal treatments of heresy
and anti-heretical writings during their heyday in the thirteenth
century. Heresy is always relative; the traces that it leaves to us
are distorted and one-sided. In the last few decades, historians
have responded to these problems by developing increasingly
sophisticated methodologies that help to unravel and illuminate the
tangled layers from which the texts that describe heresy are built,
but in the process have made our reading of heresy fractured and
disconnected. Heresy and Heretics seeks to redress this by reading
the different types of anti-heretical writing as part of a wider,
connected tradition, considering all the principal orthodox
treatments of heresy for the first time. Drawn from the
mid-thirteenth century, a time when both medieval heresy and the
church's response to it were at their zenith, they describe a
spectrum of material that ranges from the theological arguments of
some of the greatest thinkers of the age to the homely sermons of
the wanderingpreachers. In considering the whole scope of
anti-heretical writing from this period, it becomes apparent that,
far from being an artificial construct isolated from reality, the
church's treatment of heresy in fact had a far morecomplex
relationship with its subject matter. Dr L.J. Sackville teaches in
the Department of History, University of York.
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