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First English translation of seminal essays on heresy and other
aspects of medieval religious history. In the field of medieval
religious history, few scholars have matched the originality of the
German academic Herbert Grundmann (1902-1970). Trained at the
University of Leipzig and president of the Monumenta Germaniae
Historica from 1959 until his death, Grundmann published a series
of brilliant books and articles that fundamentally reshaped how
historians of culture and religion conceptualized the medieval
past. Yet although later generations of scholarshave since
approached their research from vantage points shaped by his
arguments, few of his writings have been previously accessible to
an Anglophone audience. This volume presents translations of six of
Grundmann's most significant essays on the intertwined themes of
medieval heresy, literacy, and inquisition. Together, they offer
new access to Grundmann's scholarship, one which will catalyze new
perspectives on the medieval religious past and enable a fresh
consideration of his intellectual legacy in the twenty-first
century. JENNIFER KOLPACOFF DEANE is Professor of History at the
University of Minnesota, Morris.
This concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the
Middle Ages examines the dynamic interplay between competing
medieval notions of Christian observance, tracing the escalating
confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority
between 1100 and 1500. Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the
diverse regional and cultural settings in which key disputes over
scripture, sacraments, and spiritual hierarchies erupted, events
increasingly shaped by new ecclesiastical ideas and inquisitorial
procedures. Incorporating recent research and debates in the field,
her analysis brings to life a compelling issue that profoundly
influenced the medieval world.
This concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the
Middle Ages examines the dynamic interplay between competing
medieval notions of Christian observance, tracing the escalating
confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority
between 1100 and 1500. Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the
diverse regional and cultural settings in which key disputes over
scripture, sacraments, and spiritual hierarchies erupted, events
increasingly shaped by new ecclesiastical ideas and inquisitorial
procedures. Incorporating recent research and debates in the field,
her analysis brings to life a compelling issue that profoundly
influenced the medieval world.
Between Orders and Heresy foregrounds the dynamic, creative, and
diverse late medieval religious landscapes that flourished within
the spaces of social and ecclesiastical structures. This collection
reconsiders the arguments put forward in Herbert Grundmann's
monumental book, Religious Movements in the Middle Ages, and
challenges his traditional interpretive binary, recognized as the
shared origins of many medieval religious movements. The
contributors explore the social relationships fostered between
secular clergy members, including parish priests, local canons, and
aristocratic confessors, and examine the ways in which laypeople
inspired and engaged in devotion beyond religious orders. Each
essay in the volume considers a major theme in medieval religious
history, such as the implementation of apostolic ideals, pastoral
relationships, crusade connections, vernacular traditions, and
reform. Organized to historicize and challenge the deeply embedded
historiographical tendencies that have long distorted the complex
dynamics of the late medieval world, Between Orders and Heresy is a
major assessment of medieval religious belief and activity beyond
and between the binary of orders and heresies
In this concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in
the Middle Ages, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the increasingly
bitter encounters between piety, reform, dissent, and the
institutional Church between 1100 and 1500. Although the loaded
terms of "heresy" and "orthodoxy" employed by ecclesiastical
officials suggest a clear division between right and wrong, that
division was in fact vigorously contested by medieval people at all
levels of society. Deane investigates key issues that sparked
confrontations between Christians, including access to scripture,
apostolic models of poverty and preaching, the Eucharist and
sacramental power, and clerical corruption and wealth. She traces
the means by which Church elites developed an increasingly complex
set of inquisitorial procedures and resources to identify, label,
and repress "heresy," examines the various regional eruptions of
such confrontations across medieval Europe, and considers the
judicial processes that brought many to the stake. The book ranges
from the "Good Christians" of Languedoc and Lombardy and the
pan-European "Poor," to Spiritual Franciscans, lay religious women,
anticlerical and vernacular movements in England and Bohemia,
mysticism, magical practices, and witchcraft. Throughout, Deane
considers how the new inquisitorial bureaucracies not only fueled
anxiety over heresy, but actually generated fictional "heresies"
through their own texts and techniques. Incorporating recent
research and debates in the field, her analysis brings to life a
compelling issue that profoundly influenced the medieval world.
In this concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in
the Middle Ages, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the increasingly
bitter encounters between piety, reform, dissent, and the
institutional Church between 1100 and 1500. Although the loaded
terms of "heresy" and "orthodoxy" employed by ecclesiastical
officials suggest a clear division between right and wrong, that
division was in fact vigorously contested by medieval people at all
levels of society. Deane investigates key issues that sparked
confrontations between Christians, including access to scripture,
apostolic models of poverty and preaching, the Eucharist and
sacramental power, and clerical corruption and wealth. She traces
the means by which Church elites developed an increasingly complex
set of inquisitorial procedures and resources to identify, label,
and repress "heresy," examines the various regional eruptions of
such confrontations across medieval Europe, and considers the
judicial processes that brought many to the stake. The book ranges
from the "Good Christians" of Languedoc and Lombardy and the
pan-European "Poor," to Spiritual Franciscans, lay religious women,
anticlerical and vernacular movements in England and Bohemia,
mysticism, magical practices, and witchcraft. Throughout, Deane
considers how the new inquisitorial bureaucracies not only fueled
anxiety over heresy, but actually generated fictional "heresies"
through their own texts and techniques. Incorporating recent
research and debates in the field, her analysis brings to life a
compelling issue that profoundly influenced the medieval world.
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