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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
Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the
service of heresy and inquisition. The collection, curation, and
manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of
inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control
information and to produce authoritative discourses from it - a
fact not lost on contemporaries, or on later commentators.
Understanding that relationship between inquisition and knowledge
has been one of the principal drivers of its long historiography.
Inquisitors and their historians have always been preoccupied with
the process by which information was gathered and recirculated as
knowledge. The tenor of that question has changed over time, but we
are still asking how knowledge was made and handed down - to them
and to us - and how their sense of what was interesting or useful
affected their selection. This volume approaches the theme by
looking at heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages, and also at
how they were seen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The
contributors consider a wide range of medieval texts, including
papal bulls, sermons, polemical treatises and records of
interrogations, both increasing our knowledge of medieval heresy
and inquisition, and at the same time delineating the twisting of
knowledge. This polarity continues in the early modern period, when
scholars appeared to advance learning by hunting for medieval
manuscripts and publishing them, or ensuring their preservation
through copying them; but at the same time, as some of the chapters
here show, these were proof texts in the service of Catholic or
Protestant polemic. As a whole, the collection provides a clear
view of - and invites readers' reflection on - the shading of truth
and untruth in medieval and early modern "knowledge" of heresy and
inquisition. Contributors: Jessalynn Lea Bird, Harald Bollbuck,
Irene Bueno, Joerg Feuchter, Richard Kieckhefer, Pawel Kras, Adam
Poznanski, Luc Racaut, Alessandro Sala, Shelagh Sneddon, Michaela
Valente, Reima Valimaki
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Cathars in Question (Paperback)
Antonio Sennis; Contributions by Antonio Sennis, Bernard Hamilton, Caterina Bruschi, Claire Taylor, …
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R978
Discovery Miles 9 780
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Ships in 10 - 15 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
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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