Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe
- ISBN-10
- 0812211030
- ISBN-13
- 9780812211030
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 324
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- Edward Peters
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Heresy and authority in medieval Europe: documents in translation
By Edward PetersHeresy and authority in medieval Europe: documents in translation
-
The War on Heresy
By Robert Ian Moore, R. I. MooreMoore’s narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of elites who waged war on heresy for political gain.
-
The War On Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe
By R. I. MooreThe war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium.
-
Dissent and Order in the Middle Ages: The Search for Legitimate Authority
By Jeffrey Burton RussellIn this book, Jeffrey Burton Russell provides a fresh overview of the subject from the Council of Chalcedon (451 A.D.) to the eve of the Protestant Reformation.
-
Heresies of the High Middle Ages
By Walter Leggett Wakefield, Austin Patterson Evans... Ultramontanes be prepared to allow him this , on their own behalf and on behalf of any other of their comrades . ... other of our comrades at odds with their congregation , or any of them at odds with ours for particular reasons .
-
Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc
By James B. GivenThe inquisition in Languedoc was the best documented of these tribunals because the inquisitors aggressively used the developing techniques of writing and record keeping to build cases and extract confessions.Using a Marxist and Foucauldian ...
-
The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England
By Ian ForrestThis narrow conception of deviant behaviour is evident in Joan Clifland's deposition against Margery Baxter, who was reported to have said that no child of Christian parents should be baptized in water 'according to the usual practice', ...
-
Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation
By Michael LambertFor the third edition, this comprehensive history of the great heretical movements of the Middle Ages has been updated to take account of recent research in the field.
-
Late Medieval Heresy: New Perspectives: Studies in Honor of Robert E. Lerner
By Michael D. Bailey, Sean L. FieldFresh investigations into heresy after 1300, demonstrating its continuing importance and influence.
-
Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
By John Christian Laursen, Cary J. NedermanThe essays in this volume offer readers a unique insight into this little-understood cultural shift.