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Cathars in Question (Paperback)
Antonio Sennis; Contributions by Antonio Sennis, Bernard Hamilton, Caterina Bruschi, Claire Taylor, …
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The question of the reality of Cathars and other heresies is
debated in this provocative collection. Cathars have long been
regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox
Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to
orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs,
understood to be inspired by Balkan dualism, are often seen as the
most radical among medieval heresies. However, recent work has
fiercely challenged this paradigm, arguing instead that "Catharism"
is a construct, mis-named and mis-represented by generations of
scholars, and its supposedly radical views were a fantastical
projection of the fears of orthodox commentators. This volume
brings together a wide range of views from some of the most
distinguished internationalscholars in the field, in order to
address the debate directly while also opening up new areas for
research. Focussing on dualism and anti-materialist beliefs in
southern France, Italy and the Balkans, it considers a number of
crucial issues. These include: what constitutes popular belief; how
(and to what extent) societies of the past were based on the
persecution of dissidents; and whether heresy can be seen as an
invention of orthodoxy. At the same time, the essays shed new light
on some key aspects of the political, cultural, religious and
economic relationships between the Balkans and more western regions
of Europe in the Middle Ages. ANTONIO SENNIS is Senior Lecturer in
Medieval History at University College London Contributors: John H.
Arnold, Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi, David d'Avray, Joerg
Feuchter, Bernard Hamilton, R.I. Moore, Mark Gregory Pegg, Rebecca
Rist, Lucy J. Sackville, Antonio Sennis, Claire Taylor, Julien
Thery-Astruc, Yuri Stoyanov
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Cathars in Question (Hardcover)
Antonio Sennis; Contributions by Antonio Sennis, Bernard Hamilton, Caterina Bruschi, Claire Taylor, …
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R2,340
Discovery Miles 23 400
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The question of the reality of Cathars and other heresies is
debated in this provocative collection. Cathars have long been
regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox
Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to
orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs,
understood to be inspired by Balkan dualism, are often seen as the
most radical among medieval heresies. However, recent work has
fiercely challenged this paradigm, arguing instead that "Catharism"
is a construct, mis-named and mis-represented by generations of
scholars, and its supposedly radical views were a fantastical
projection of the fears of orthodox commentators. This volume
brings together a wide range of views from some of the most
distinguished internationalscholars in the field, in order to
address the debate directly while also opening up new areas for
research. Focussing on dualism and anti-materialist beliefs in
southern France, Italy and the Balkans, it considers a number of
crucial issues. These include: what constitutes popular belief; how
(and to what extent) societies of the past were based on the
persecution of dissidents; and whether heresy can be seen as an
invention of orthodoxy. At the same time, the essays shed new light
on some key aspects of the political, cultural, religious and
economic relationships between the Balkans and more western regions
of Europe in the Middle Ages. Antonio Sennis is Senior Lecturer in
Medieval History at University College London Contributors: John H.
Arnold, Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi, David d'Avray, Joerg
Feuchter, Bernard Hamilton, R.I. Moore, Mark Gregory Pegg, Rebecca
Rist, Lucy J. Sackville, Antonio Sennis, Claire Taylor, Julien
Thery-Astruc, Yuri Stoyanov
Historiographical survey of inquisition texts, from lists of
questions to inquisitor's manual, studies their role in the
suppression of heresy. Did you see a heretic? When? Where? Who else
was there?'. The inquisitor is questioning, and a suspect is
replying; a notary is translating from the vernacular into Latin,
and writing it down, abbreviating and omitting at will; later there
is the reading out of a sentence in public and then, in a few
cases, burning. At every stage there is a text: a list of
questions, for example, or an inquisitor's how-to-do it manual. The
substance and intention of these texts forms the subject of this
book. The introduction brings them all together in an
historiographical survey of the role of texts in the suppression of
heresy, and the volume is crowned by the Quodlibet lecture, in
which the doyen of all heresy historians, ALEXANDER PATSCHOVSKY,
magisterially surveys the political nature of heresy accusations.
Contributors: MARK PEGG, PETER BILLER, CATERINA BRUSCHI, JAMES
GIVEN, JOHN ARNOLD, JESSALYN BIRD, ANNE HUDSON, ALEXANDER
PATSCHOVSKY.
How should historians read sources which record inquisitorial
trials in the Middle Ages? How can we understand the fears felt by
those on trial? By analysing six volumes of depositions in the
trial of Cathar and Waldensian heretics in Languedoc between the
late twelfth and the fourteenth century, in this 2009 book,
Caterina Bruschi challenges old methodologies in the study of
dissent. She examines the intrinsic narratological problems related
to the sources and, using approaches from the social sciences,
analyses the different fears felt by deponents and how those fears
affected their actions and decisions. In so doing, she sheds light
on itinerancy within the ecclesial structure of non-conformist
movements and contextualises the problem of itinerancy as a
benchmark for the definition of heresy. Focusing on the lives and
attitudes of trial witnesses, this innovative account is a major
contribution to our understanding of the nature of religious
non-conformity in the Middle Ages.
How should historians read sources which record inquisitorial
trials in the Middle Ages? How can we understand the fears felt by
those on trial? By analysing six volumes of depositions in the
trial of Cathar and Waldensian heretics in Languedoc between the
late twelfth and the fourteenth century, in this 2009 book,
Caterina Bruschi challenges old methodologies in the study of
dissent. She examines the intrinsic narratological problems related
to the sources and, using approaches from the social sciences,
analyses the different fears felt by deponents and how those fears
affected their actions and decisions. In so doing, she sheds light
on itinerancy within the ecclesial structure of non-conformist
movements and contextualises the problem of itinerancy as a
benchmark for the definition of heresy. Focusing on the lives and
attitudes of trial witnesses, this innovative account is a major
contribution to our understanding of the nature of religious
non-conformity in the Middle Ages.
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