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New insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the
history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth
centuries. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal demonstrates
the Society's continued interest in a broad range of geographical
contexts and methodological approaches to medieval history.
Chapters include a much-needed reassessment of AElfthryth and her
place in the society and governance of tenth-century England, as
well as a comprehensive survey of the conceptualization of
excommunication in post-Carolingian Europe to c.1200. Further
essays explore aspects of the Norman world of southern Italy,
including the dynamics of political coalitions and kinship
networks, ethnic identity, and material culture. The Journal
continues to highlight close analyses of key primary sources,with a
study of Angevin kingship in the writings of Hugh of Lincoln and
Adam of Eynsham, and an examination of Ralph of Niger's Old
Testament exegesis and criticism of crusading in the late twelfth
century. A ground-breaking newstudy assesses the utility of
colonialism as a valid model for understanding the extraction of
sacred resources and relics from the crusader lands. The volume
closes with a crucial reconsideration of the agency and power of
medieval French peasants as attested in medieval cartularies,
opening new approaches for further research into this critical and
complex social group.
The Cathars: not the largest heretical movement of the Middle Ages,
but a modern invention? Richly illustrated and supplemented by the
translations of central sources, the book introduces into their
complex history the idea that these famous heretics were
constructed as an enemy image in the High Middle Ages and then
became a myth in modern times. The Cathars are considered the
largest heretical movement of the Middle Ages, a kind of
counter-church, ultimately destroyed by crusaders and inquisitors.
This traditional image of the famous heretics has been
fundamentally questioned by international research over the past
quarter of a century. Instead of a historical mass phenomenon, the
Cathars seem to be a modern myth, essentially based on an enemy
image created in the High Middle Ages for the struggle for heresy,
developed by historians in the 19th century and now closely linked
to the regional identity of today's southern France, which is also
marketed as "Cathar country" for tourism. Richly illustrated and
supplemented by the translations of central sources, the volume
introduces the complex history of this "invention" for the first
time. Language of text: German
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