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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
The Waldenses, like the Franciscans, emerged from the apostolic
movements within the Latin Church of the decades around 1200, but
unlike the Franciscans they were driven underground. Not a full
counter-Church, like the Cathar heretics, they formed a clandestine
religious order, preaching to and hearing the confessions of their
secret followers, and surviving until the Reformation. This volume
begins by surveying modern historiography. Then, using both
inquisition records from the Baltic to the Alps and the Waldenses'
own books, the author deals with the asceticism of the Waldensian
order, its practice of poverty and medicine, the culture of the
Brothers and the preaching of the Waldensian Sisters, the way both
used and mythicised history to support their position, and the
composition of their followers. The final chapters examine their
origins and authorship of the inquisitors' texts, and look through
them to see how inquisitors viewed the Waldenses.
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. -- .
This is the first volume to be published by York Medieval Press,
under the aegis of University of York's Centre for Medieval Studies
in association with Boydell & Brewer, with the aim of promoting
innovative scholarship and fresh criticism on medieval culture. It
has a special commitment to interdisciplinary study, in line with
the Centre's belief that the future of medieval studies lies in
areas in which its major disciplines at once inform and challenge
each other. The attitudes towards the human body held by different
branches of medieval theology are currently a major focus of
scholarly attention. This first volume from York Medieval Press
includes studies of the metaphor of man as head and woman as body,
Abelard, women and Catharism, the female body as an impediment to
ordination, women mystics, and the University of York's 1995
Quodlibet Lecture given by Eamon Duffy on the early iconography and
lives' of St Francis of Assisi..... Thenew scholarly essays
collected here explore ways in which the human body - a major focus
of attention in recent work on literary theory and cultural studies
-was treated by several branches of medieval theology; they are
derived in the mainfrom a conference held at York in 1995, under
the title This Body of Death', together with further invited papers
on the same theme. It includes the first of the Annual Quodlibet
Lectures in medieval theology, Eamon Duffy's masterly study of the
early iconography and lives' of St Francis of Assisi. PETER BILLER
is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York;
A.J. MINNIS is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University
of York. Contributors: PETER BILLER, ALCUIN BLAMIRES, DAVID
LUSCOMBE, W.G.EAST, A.J. MINNIS, DYAN ELLIOTT, ROSALYNN VOADEN,
EAMON DUFFY
Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious
life; essays explore literary evidence. Penance, confession and
their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important
topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a
wide range of issues, from medieval social thought to Chaucer's
background. These essays treat a variety of different aspects of
the topic: subjects include the frequency and character of early
medieval penance; the summae and manuals for confessors, and the
ways in which these texts (written by males for males) constructed
women as sexual in nature; William of Auvergne's remarkable writing
on penance; and the relevance of confessors' manuals for
demographic history. JOHN BALDWIN's major study "From the Ordeal to
Confession", delivered as a Quodlibet lecture, traces the
appearance in French romances of the themes of a penitent's
contrition, the priest's job in listening, and the application of
the spiritual conseil and penitence. PETER BILLER is Professor of
Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Douglas
Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University. Contributors:
PETER BILLER, ROB MEENS, ALEXANDER MURRAY, JACQUELINE MURRAY,
LESLEY SMITH, MICHAEL HAREN, JOHN BALDWIN
Medicine and religion were intertwined in the middle ages; here are
studies of specific instances. The sheer extent of crossover -
medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical language
at the service of preaching and moral-theological language deployed
in medical writings - is the driving force behind these studies.
The book reflects the extraordinary advances which 'pure' history
of medicine has made in the last twenty years: there is medicine at
the levels of midwife and village practitioner, the sweep of the
learned Greek and Latin tradition of over a millennium; there is
control of midwifery by the priest, therapy through liturgy,
medicine as an expression of religious life for heretics, medicine
invading theologians' discussion of earthly paradise; and so on.
Professor PETER BILLER is Senior Lecturer in History at the
University of York; Dr JOSEPH ZIEGLER teaches in the Department of
History at the University of Haifa.Contributors JOSEPH ZIEGLER,
PEREGRINE HORDEN, KATHRYNTAGLIA, JESSALYN BIRD, PETER BILLER,
DANIELLE JACQUART, MICHAEL McVAUGH, MAAIKE VAN DER LUGT, WILLIAM
COURTENAY, VIVIAN NUTTON.
Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious
life; essays explore literary evidence. Penance, confession and
their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important
topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a
wide range of issues, from medieval social thought to Chaucer's
background. These essays treat a variety of different aspects of
the topic: subjects include the frequency and character of early
medieval penance; the summae and manuals for confessors, and the
ways in which these texts (written by males for males) constructed
women as sexual in nature; William of Auvergne's remarkable writing
on penance; and the relevance of confessors' manuals for
demographic history. JOHN BALDWIN's major study `From the Ordeal to
Confession', delivered as a Quodlibet lecture, traces the
appearance in French romances of the themes of a penitent's
contrition, the priest's job in listening, and the application of
the spiritual conseil and penitence. PETER BILLER is Professor of
Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Douglas
Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University. Contributors:
PETER BILLER, ROB MEENS, ALEXANDER MURRAY, JACQUELINE MURRAY,
LESLEY SMITH, MICHAEL HAREN, JOHN BALDWIN
Essays on medieval history inspired by, and engaging with, the work
of Jacques Le Goff. The essays in this volume arise from the
proceedings of a conference held in 1994 to celebrate the life and
work of the eminent French medievalist Jacques Le Goff. Set within
thematic sections -popular religion and heresy, the body, royalty
andits mystique, intellectuals in medieval society, and others
-many of the challenges raised by Le Goff are reassessed and
reapproached. There is an explicit historiographical focus in a
section on the reception and influence of Le Goff, with particular
reference to the Annales school of history with which he is
strongly identified; the volume also indicates the problems which
animate current research in medieval studies, especially in certain
areas of social and cultural history. MIRI RUBIN is Professor of
History, Queen Mary, University of London. Contributors: ALEXANDER
MURRAY, PETER BILLER, ANDRE VAUCHEZ, R.I. MOORE, OTTO GERHARD
OEXLE,LESTER K. LITTLE, WALTER SIMONS, ADELINE RUCQUOI, ALAIN
BOUREAU, JEAN DUBABIN, WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN, PETER LINEHAN, MIRI
RUBIN, GABOR KLANICZAY, AARON GUREVICH, ROBIN BRIGGS, STUART CLARK
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. -- .
Peter Biller's innovative study challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He describes what medieval people 'thought' about population, studying the texts which constrained their thought, and examining the medieval realities which shaped it, such as birth, birth-control, sex-ratio, marriage ages, length of life, and the population of the Holy Land.
Did growing literacy in the later medieval period foster popular
heresy, or did heresy provide a crucial stimulus to the spread of
literacy? Such questions were posed in the polemic of the time -
heretics were laici illiterati but were at the same time possessors
of dangerous books which their opponents sought to destroy, and
among them were preachers whose skills in dialectic and in exegesis
threatened orthodoxy - and have challenged the investigators of
heresy and literacy ever since. This collaborative volume, written
by a group of established scholars from Britain, continental Europe
and the United States, considers the importance of the written word
among the main pre-Lutheran popular heresies in a wide range of
European countries and explores the extent to which heretics'
familiarity with books paralleled or exceeded that of their
orthodox contemporaries.
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