Heresy and authority in medieval Europe : documents in translation /

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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Peters, Edward, 1936- (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press 1980.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fh8qt
Table of Contents:
  • "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.