Heresy and the Making of European Culture : Medieval and Modern Perspectives.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations and Table -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I The Wheat and the Tares -- 1 The Rebaptism of Heretics in the Orthodox Canonical Tradition -- 2 Heresy and Political Legitimacy in Al-Andalus -- 3 The Burning of Heretical Books -- 4 Lombard Religiosities Reconsidered: 'Arianism', Syncretism and the Transition to Catholic Christianity -- Part II Inventing Heresies -- 5 Perceptions of Heresy in Historiographical and Hagiographical Sources of Aquitaine and the Loire Valley During the High Middle Ages -- 6 The Bogomils' Folk Heritage: False Friend or Neglected Source? -- Part III Approaching Literary and Narrative Sources -- 7 Why God Keeps Sending His Angels: Domestic Disturbance and Joseph's Doubts about Mary in Chester and York -- 8 Vernacular Poetry and the Spiritual Franciscans of the Languedoc: The Poems of Raimon de Cornet -- 9 Heretical Hussites: Oswald von Wolkenstein's 'Song of Hell' ('Durch Toren Weis') -- 10 Dogging Cornwall's 'Secret Freaks': Béroul on the Limits of European Orthodoxy -- Part IV Law and the Inquisition -- 11 'Heresy' in Quercy in the 1240s: Authorities and Audiences -- 12 Heresy, Orthodoxy and the Interaction Between Canon and Civil Law in Theodore Balsamon's Commentaries -- 13 Fighting Clergy, Church Councils and the Contexts of Law: The Cutting Edge of Orthodoxy or the Ambiguous Limits of Legitimacy? -- 14 'Famosus est et satis publicum': Factionalism and the Limits of Doctrine in the Case Against Meister Eckhart -- 15 The Inquisition in Medieval Bohemia: National and International Contexts -- 16 Clerical Illegitimacy in the Diocese of Sodor: Exception or Rule in the Late Medieval Church? -- Part V Heresy, Place and Community.

17 Learning by Doing: Coping with Inquisitors in Medieval Languedoc -- 18 Travels and Studies of Stephen of Siwnik‛ (c.685-735): Redefining Armenian Orthodoxy Under Islamic Rule -- 19 Catharism and Heresy in Milan -- 20 Church Reform and Witch-Hunting in the Diocese of Lausanne: The Example of Bishop George of Saluzzo -- Part VI Distant Mirrors: Heresies, Orthodoxies and Modernities -- 21 Between Medieval and Modern Beholding: Heidegger, Deleuze and the Duns Scotus Affair -- 22 Heresy and Its Afterlives in Communist-Era Poland -- 23 Not Just Price: Scholastic Economic Theology and Fair Trade -- Index.

Scholars and analysts looking for the roots of the extraordinary creativity and innovation found in Europe from the Middle Ages 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 among the Cathars of Languedoc, the Balkan Bogomils, the Hussites of Bohemia and the attempts to police or eradicate it, such as the Inquisition.

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