Heresy and the making of European culture : medieval and modern perspectives / edited by Andrew P. Roach and James R. Simpson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roach, Andrew P.

Simpson, James R., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Christian heresies.

Civilization, Medieval.

Europe--Church history--600-1500.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xix, 484 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The papers collected here - reflecting the disciplines of history, literature, theology, philosophy, economics and law - examine the intellectual and social investments characteristic of both deliberate religious dissent such as the Cathars of Languedoc, the Balkan Bogomils, the Hussites of Bohemia and those who knowingly or unknowingly bent or broke the rules, creating their own 'unofficial orthodoxies'. Attempts to understand, police and eradicate all these, through methods such as the Inquisition, required no less ingenuity. The ambivalent dynamic evident in the tensions between coercion and dissent is still recognisable and productive in the world today.

Contents:

Introduction / Andrew P. Roach and James R. Simpson

The rebaptism of heretics in the orthodox canonical tradition / Kallistos Ware

Heresy and political legitimacy in al-Andalus / Maribel Fierro

The burning of heretical books / Alexander Murray

Lombard religiosities reconsidered : "arianism", syncretism and the transition to Catholic Christianity / Marilyn Dunn

Perceptions of heresy in historiographical and hagiographical sources of Aquitaine and the Loire Valley during the high Middle Ages / Julien Bellarbre

The Bogomils' folk heritage : false friend or neglected source? / Maja Angelovska-Panova and Andrew P. Roach

Why God keeps sending His angels : domestic disturbance and Joseph's doubts about Mary in Chester and York / Judith R. Anderson

Vernacular poetry and the spiritual Franciscans of the Languedoc : the poems of Raimon de Cornet / Catherine Léglu

Heretic Hussites : Oswald von Wolkenstein's "Song of Hell" ("Durch toren Weis")

Dogging Cornwall's "secret freaks" : Béroul on the limits of European orthodoxy / James R. Simpson

"Heresy" in Quercy in the 1240s : authorities and audiences / Claire Taylor

Heresy, orthodoxy and the interaction between canon and civil law in Theodore Balsamon's commentaries / Peter Petkoff

Fighting clergy, church councils and the contexts of law : the cutting edge of orthodoxy or the ambiguous limits of legitimacy? / Daniel Gerrard

Famosus est et satis publicum : factionalism and the limits of doctrine in the case against Meister Eckhart / Alessandra Beccarisi

The inquisition in medieval Bohemia : national and international contexts / Eva Dolezalovss

Clerical illegitimacy in the diocese of Sodor : exception or rule in the late medieval church? / Sarah Thomas

Learning by doing : coping with inquisitors in medieval Languedoc / James Given

The travels and studies of Stephen of Siwnik' (c. 685-735) : re-defining Armenian orthodoxy under Islamic rule / Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev

Catharism and heresy in Milan / Faye Taylor

Church reform and witch-hunting in the diocese of Lausanne : the example of bishop George of Saluzzo / Georg Modestin

Between medieval and modern beholding : Heidegger, Deleuze and the Duns Scotus affair / Philip Tonner

Heresy and its afterlives in communist-era Poland / John M. Bates

Not just price : scholastic economic theology and fair trade / Robert I. Mochrie.

Notes:

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4724-1183-8

1-317-12250-X

1-315-58661-4

1-317-12249-6

1-4724-1182-X

9781315586618

OCLC:

1022778887