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Since its first publication in 2007, John H. Arnold's What is
Medieval History? has established itself as the leading
introduction to the craft of the medieval historian. What is it
that medieval historians do? How - and why - do they do it? Arnold
discusses the creation of medieval history as a field, the nature
of its sources, the intellectual tools used by medievalists, and
some key areas of thematic importance from the fall of the Roman
Empire to the Reformation. The fascinating case studies include a
magical plot against a medieval pope, a fourteenth-century
insurrection, and the importance of a kiss exchanged between two
tenth-century noblemen. Throughout the book, readers are shown not
only what medieval history is, but the cultural and political
contexts in which it has been written. This anticipated second
edition includes further exploration of the interdisciplinary
techniques that can aid medieval historians, such as dialogue with
scientists and archaeologists, and addresses some of the challenges
- both medieval and modern - of the idea of a 'global middle ages'.
What is Medieval History? continues to demonstrate why the pursuit
of medieval history is important not only to the present, but to
the future. It is an invaluable guide for students, teachers,
researchers and interested general readers.
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Cathars in Question (Hardcover)
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
Since its first publication in 2007, John H. Arnold's What is
Medieval History? has established itself as the leading
introduction to the craft of the medieval historian. What is it
that medieval historians do? How - and why - do they do it? Arnold
discusses the creation of medieval history as a field, the nature
of its sources, the intellectual tools used by medievalists, and
some key areas of thematic importance from the fall of the Roman
Empire to the Reformation. The fascinating case studies include a
magical plot against a medieval pope, a fourteenth-century
insurrection, and the importance of a kiss exchanged between two
tenth-century noblemen. Throughout the book, readers are shown not
only what medieval history is, but the cultural and political
contexts in which it has been written. This anticipated second
edition includes further exploration of the interdisciplinary
techniques that can aid medieval historians, such as dialogue with
scientists and archaeologists, and addresses some of the challenges
- both medieval and modern - of the idea of a 'global middle ages'.
What is Medieval History? continues to demonstrate why the pursuit
of medieval history is important not only to the present, but to
the future. It is an invaluable guide for students, teachers,
researchers and interested general readers.
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Cathars in Question (Paperback)
Antonio Sennis; Contributions by Antonio Sennis, Bernard Hamilton, Caterina Bruschi, Claire Taylor, …
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R796
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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
The fourteenth century was, for the English, a century which
witnessed dramatic and not always easily explicable changes of
fortune. In 1300, England's population was around seven million,
and Edward I seemed to be on the verge of turning the British Isles
into an English Empire. By 1400, its population was between three
and four million (due mainly to the Black Death), dreams of a
'British' empire had all but crumbled, and instead England had
become embroiled in a war - the Hundred Years' War - which was not
only ultimately disastrous, but which also established the French
as the 'national enemy' for many centuries to come. In addition,
despite the fact that before 1300 no reigning English monarch had
ever been deposed, by 1400 two had: Edward II in 1327, and Richard
II in 1399. Sandwiched between these two turbulent reigns, however,
came that of Edward III, one of the most successful, both
politically and militarily, in English history. It is against the
background of these remarkable fluctuations that the articles in
this volume, the second in the Fourteenth Century England series,
have been written. The range of subjects which they cover is wide:
from princely education to popular heresy, from national propaganda
to the familial and territorial power politics which occasioned the
downfall of kings. Taken together, they reinforce the view that,
whether viewed as calamitous or heroic, the fourteenth century was
never less than interesting.CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON is Professor of Late
Medieval History, University of St Andrews. Contributors: MARTIN
ALLEN, JOHN ARNOLD, PAULETTE BARTON, TOM BEAUMONT-JAMES, ALASTAIR
DUNN, JEFFREY HAMILTON, JILL C. HAVENS, ANDY KING, CARLA LORD,
SHELAGHMITCHELL, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, ARND REITMEIER, NIGEL SAUL.
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.
Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200-1300 is an invaluable
collection of primary sources in translation, aimed at students and
academics alike. It provides a wide array of materials on both
heresy (Cathars and Waldensians) and the persecution of heresy in
medieval France. The book is divided into eight sections, each
devoted to a different genre of source material. It contains
substantial material pertaining to the setting up and practice of
inquisitions into heretical wickedness, and a large number of
translations from the registers of inquisition trials. Each source
is introduced fully and is accompanied by references to useful
modern commentaries. The study of heresy and inquisition has always
aroused considerable scholarly debate; with this book, students and
scholars can form their own interpretations of the key issues, from
the texts written in the period itself. -- .
Inquisition and Power Catharism and the Confessing Subject in
Medieval Languedoc John H. Arnold "Intelligent and
demanding."--"Religious Studies Review" "The lasting importance of
Arnold's book is that . . . it will provoke scholars to rethink
what they thought they knew about heresy, confession, and the
inquisition in the Middle Ages."--"Speculum" "Intelligent and
demanding. . . . The persevering reader will be amply rewarded by
many insights into the nature of the Inquisition, Catharism, and
elitist construction of confession, conformity, and
subjectivity."--"Religious Studies Review" "Arnold has written an
innovative, challenging, and stimulating book."--James Given,
University of California, Irvine "Arnold has contributed to raising
important questions of methodology, enriching a recently
rediscovered debate on the reliability of sources about the
repression of heresy in the late Middle Ages."--"Journal of
Ecclesiastical History" What should historians do with the words of
the dead? "Inquisition and Power" reformulates the historiography
of heresy and the inquisition by focusing on depositions taken from
the Cathars, a religious sect that opposed the Catholic church and
took root in southern France during the twelfth century. Despite
the fact that these depositions were spoken in the vernacular, but
recorded in Latin in the third person and rewritten in the past
tense, historians have often taken these accounts as verbatim
transcriptions of personal testimony. This belief has prompted some
historians, including E. Le Roy Ladurie, to go so far as to
retranslate the testimonies into the first-person. These
testimonies have been a long source of controversy for historians
and scholars of the Middle Ages. Arnold enters current theoretical
debates about subjectivity and the nature of power to develop
reading strategies that will permit a more nuanced reinterpretation
of these documents of interrogation. Rather than seeking to recover
the true voice of the Cathars from behind the inquisitor's
framework, this book shows how the historian is better served by
analyzing texts as sites of competing discourses that construct and
position a variety of subjectivities. In this critically informed
history, Arnold suggests that what we do with the voices of history
in fact has as much to do with ourselves as with those we seek to
'rescue' from the silences of past. John H. Arnold is Lecturer in
History at the University of East Anglia. The Middle Ages Series
2001 328 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 ISBN 978-0-8122-3618-7 Cloth $75.00s
49.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0116-1 Ebook $75.00s 49.00 World Rights
History, Religion
Margery Kempe and her Book studied in both literary and historical
context. Margery Kempe's Book provides rare access to the "marginal
voice" of a lay medieval woman, and is now the focus of much
critical study. This Companion seeks to complement the existing
almost exclusively literary scholarship with work that also draws
significantly on historical analysis, and is concerned to
contextualise Kempe's Book in a number of different ways, using her
work as a way in to the culture and society of medieval northern
Europe. Topics include images and pilgrimage; women, work and trade
in medieval Norfolk; political culture and heresy; the prophetic
tradition; female mystics and the body; women's roles and
lifecycle; religious drama and reenactment; autobiography and
gender. Contributors: JOHN H. ARNOLD, P.H. CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS,
ALLYSON FOSTER, JACQUELINE JENKINS, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, KATE
PARKER, KIM M. PHILLIPS, SARAH SALIH, CLAIRE SPONSLER, DIANE
WATT,BARRY WINDEATT.
Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200-1300 is an invaluable
collection of primary sources in translation, aimed at students and
academics alike. It provides a wide array of materials on both
heresy (Cathars and Waldensians) and the persecution of heresy in
medieval France. The book is divided into eight sections, each
devoted to a different genre of source material. It contains
substantial material pertaining to the setting up and practice of
inquisitions into heretical wickedness, and a large number of
translations from the registers of inquisition trials. Each source
is introduced fully and is accompanied by references to useful
modern commentaries. The study of heresy and inquisition has always
aroused considerable scholarly debate; with this book, students and
scholars can form their own interpretations of the key issues, from
the texts written in the period itself. -- .
For most people in the middle ages--for thousands upon thousands
who lived within Christendom in the period considered by this book,
1100-1500--we have no record of what they believed or did not
believe. John Arnold sifts through the traces left behind by our
ancestors across Europe and assembles a more complete picture than
ever before. Religion in mediveal Europe was hugely important, and
impinged upon the most mundane aspects of everyday life. But was
the period a uniform "Age of Faith?" By focussing on lay people,
this fascinating account unlocks the multiple meanings of religion,
asking how it functioned and with what effects.
This book deftly reveals for today's readers, as none have before,
the meanings and struggles that lay between the smooth surface of
medieval religious life.
John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. Concepts such as causation, interpretation, and periodization, are introduced by means of concrete examples of how historians work, giving the reader a sense of the excitement of discovering not only the past, but also ourselves.
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject
the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church
between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early
medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material
wealth of the Church to the spiritual exercises through which
certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. Each
chapter tells a story, but seeks also to ask how and why
'Christianity' took particular forms at particular moments in
history, paying attention to both the spiritual and otherwordly
aspects of religion, and the material and political contexts in
which they were often embedded. This Handbook is a landmark
academic collection that presents cutting-edge interpretive
perspectives on medieval religion for a wide academic audience,
drawing together thirty key scholars in the field from the United
States, the UK, and Europe. Notably, the Handbook is arranged
thematically, and focusses on an analytical, rather than narrative,
approach, seeking to demonstrate the variety, change, and
complexity of religion throughout this long period, and the
numerous different ways in which modern scholarship can approach
it. While providing a very wide-ranging view of the subject, it
also offers an important agenda for further study in the field.
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject
the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church
between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early
medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material
wealth of the Church to the spiritual exercises through which
certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. Each
chapter tells a story, but seeks also to ask how and why
'Christianity' took particular forms at particular moments in
history, paying attention to both the spiritual and otherwordly
aspects of religion, and the material and political contexts in
which they were often embedded. This Handbook is a landmark
academic collection that presents cutting-edge interpretive
perspectives on medieval religion for a wide academic audience,
drawing together thirty key scholars in the field from the United
States, the UK, and Europe. Notably, the Handbook is arranged
thematically, and focusses on an analytical, rather than narrative,
approach, seeking to demonstrate the variety, change, and
complexity of religion throughout this long period, and the
numerous different ways in which modern scholarship can approach
it. While providing a very wide-ranging view of the subject, it
also offers an important agenda for further study in the field.
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