Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe

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Edward Peters
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980 - History - 312 pages

Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels by a religion. To maintain a belief in opposition to the orthodoxy was to set oneself in opposition not merely to church and state but to a whole culture in all of its manifestations. From the eleventh century to the fifteenth, however, dissenting movements appeared with greater frequency, attracted more followers, acquired philosophical as well as theological dimensions, and occupied more and more the time and the minds of religious and civil authorities. In the perception of dissent and in the steps taken to deal with it lies the history of medieval heresy and the force it exerted on religious, social, and political communities long after the Middle Ages.

In this volume, Edward Peters makes available the most compact and wide-ranging collection of source materials in translation on medieval orthodoxy and heterodoxy in social context.

 

Contents

Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe
1
THE DEFINITION
13
The Rise of Arianism
38
On the Church and the Sects
47
13
54
Heretics at Orléans 1022
66
Heretics at Soissons 1114
72
Arnold of Brescia in Rome 114855
78
A Manual for Inquisitors at Carcasonne 124849
200
The Liber Augustalis of Frederick II 1231
207
Concerning Heretics 1235
209
ThirteenthCentury French Royal Legislation Against Heretics
210
The English Statute De haeretico comburendo 1401
212
INTELLECTUAL POSITIONS CONDEMNED IN THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES
217
Errors Condemned at the University of Paris 1270
220
Faith and Philosophy in the Arts Faculty of Paris 1272
221

Against Abelard 1140
87
Sermon 65 on The Song of Songs 1144
95
III
103
A Standoff at Lombers 1165
117
The Historia Albigensis
123
The Heretics
133
IV
139
Valdèss Profession of Faith
147
V
165
Credo and Confession
173
St Antonys Sermon to the Fish
180
Whether Heretics Should Be Tolerated
182
Pope Innocent III and Durand of Huesca 1210
184
CRUSADE AND CRIMINAL SANCTIONS
189
The Stake
193
The Council of Toulouse 1229
194
The Decretal Ille humani generis 1231
196
The Council of Tarragona 1242
198
The Condemnation of 219 Propositions at Paris 1277
223
The Condemnation of Marsiglio of Padua and John of Jandun 1327
230
On Some FourteenthCentury Latin Averroists 1364
231
THE SPIRITUAL FRANCISCANS AND VOLUNTARY POVERTY
235
On dominium and usus
240
Violations of dominium and usus
243
The Decretal Gloriosam ecclesiam 1318
245
The Decretal Cum inter nonullas 1323
247
The Inquisitorial Register of Jacques Fournier
253
X
265
On Wyclif
271
The Lollard Conclusions 1394
277
The Condemnation
286
On the Church and Heresy
297
Sources and Acknowledgments
309
78
310
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Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Magician, the Witch, and the Law, Torture, The First Crusade, and, with Alan C. Kors, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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