Heresy and authority in medieval Europe : documents in translation
Edward Peters (Editor)
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
eBook, English, 1980
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1980
History
1 online resource (viii, 312 pages)
9780585127125, 9780812206807, 9781283890304, 0585127123, 0812206800, 1283890305
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"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
English