Heresy and authority in medieval Europe : documents in translation / edited, with an introd., by Edward Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Edward, 1936-

Contributor:

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Middle Ages series

The Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian heresies--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources.

Christian heresies.

Sects, Medieval--History--Sources.

Sects, Medieval.

Authority--History--Sources.

Authority.

History.

Genre:

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Peters, Edward, 1936- (donor) (Lea copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 312 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980.

Contents:

"The heretics of old" : the definition of orthodoxy and heresy in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages

The problem of reform, dissent, and heresy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries

The Cathars

The Waldensians

The way of Caritas : preaching, penitence, and pastoralism

The way of Potestas : crusade and criminal sanctions

Intellectual positions condemned in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

The spiritual Franciscans and voluntary poverty

Peasant Cathars in the Ariège in the early fourteenth century

The age of Wyclif and Hus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy was presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Edward Peters.

ISBN:

0812277791

9780812277791

0812211030

9780812211030

OCLC:

6198850