Heresy Archive
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Conflict and Coercion in Southern France
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper endeavors to examine the mechanisms by which the crown of France was able to subsume the region of Languedoc in the wake of the Albigensian Crusade in the thirteenth century. -
Jan Hus: The 15th Century Czech Reformer
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsNeil Fowler performs as Jan Hus (c.1369 – 1415) and depicts his life and teachings. -
In search of a missing link: The Bogomils and Zoroastrianism
Posted on January 13, 2013 | No CommentsBoth Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism are dualist relig- ions. Implicit in the beliefs held true by these religions is the notion of co-equal and co-eternal principles. Implicit in this notion is the belief that both good and evil exist and are acted upon from the very beginning. -
Labyrinth, Part 2
Posted on December 8, 2012 | No CommentsSo we continue with the exciting conclusion of last week's two part mini-series, Labyrinth. Alice is being pursued by unsavory attackers, and Carcassonne has all but fallen. -
Abandoned to Love: The Proceso of María de Cazalla and the Mirror of Simple Souls
Posted on December 4, 2012 | No CommentsIn comparing the trial of María de Cazalla with Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls, one of the most notable works of medieval mysticism, the present study aims to demonstrate how the main components of alumbradismo may be discerned in a single normative example of medieval mystical theology. -
Labyrinth
Posted on December 1, 2012 | No CommentsA review of Part 1 of author Kate Mosse's, "Labyrinth". Cathars, Crusaders and the Holy Grail! -
Nordic Witchcraft in Transition: Impotence, Heresy and Diabolism in 14th-century Bergen
Posted on November 26, 2012 | No CommentsWithin the orbit of witchcraft, what is the relationship between sexuality, heresy, and diabolism? -
Hot Holiday Reads!
Posted on November 23, 2012 | No CommentsPut down those turkey left-overs and check out some of these hot holiday reads! -
Salutare Animas Nostras: The Ideologies Behind the Foundation of the Templars
Posted on November 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe meteoric rise of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon (more commonly known as the Knights Templar) and their equally swift fall has fueled fanciful tales and scholarly research. The order promoted their mythological origins and the extreme charges leveled against them by Philip IV of France (1285-1314) created an atmosphere of speculation. -
“The Eucharist and the Negotiation of Orthodoxy in the High Middle Ages”
Posted on November 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper is part of Adam Hoose's dissertation. It examined the differences between Waldensians and Franciscans in their treatment of the Eucharist. It also explored why the Waldensians were unsuccessful in their bid to become a legitimate religious order and were eventually marginalized as heretics. -
Abbot Majolus of Cluny, Ambassador to the Dead
Posted on November 6, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper was part of a intriguing session on monasticism entitled: SESSION IV: Abbots between Ideals and Institutions, 10th–12th Centuries. Here, we meet the unsung hero of Cluny's early history, Abbot Majolus. -
Ruthless Oppressors? Unraveling the Myth About the Spanish Inquisition
Posted on October 29, 2012 | No CommentsFrom its inception to the present, critics of the Spanish Inquisition has characterized the institution as omnipotent and oppressive and highlighted its role in the expulsion, forced conversion, and execution of supposed heretics. -
God’s Warriors from the Czech Kingdom – the Terror of Central and Eastern Europe in the First Half of the 15th Century
Posted on October 28, 2012 | No CommentsThe aim of this study is to point out a distinct phenomenon in the history of Central And Eastern Europe wherein part of the population of a fairly small kingdom in Central Europe invoked justified fear throughout the majority of Europe. Czech history is not all that popular a theme of study within the framework of European history. One of the few exceptions is the period of the first half of the 15th century in particular. -
Waldensians at the turn of the fifteenth century in the Duchy of Austria: Perception of Heresy and Action against Heretics
Posted on October 1, 2012 | No CommentsThe other major field of research that pertains to my current investigation is the inquisition; or the repression of heresy, as Richard Kieckhefer asserts. He notes that there was no such a thing as the Inquisition, because it existed only as mere offices, or functions of carrying out the inquisitorial justice, and did not as an institution as such, not even institutions, as was later the case in the sixteenth century. -
Dualist heresy in Aquitaine and the Agenais, c.1000-c.1249
Posted on September 2, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis will examine whether the heresy in eleventh-century Aquitaine was dualist and will then discuss twelfth- and thirteenth-century Catharism in an Aquitainian context. -
Literacy as Heresy: Lollards and the Spread of Literacy
Posted on July 28, 2012 | No CommentsAn examination of the literacy habits of the Lollards, a heretical sect of the Middle Ages, will, I hope, provide a needed historical context for our concern today with literacy, technology, and responsibility. -
Religious Key Terms in Hellenism and Byzantium: Three Facets
Posted on July 8, 2012 | No CommentsThe following is a survey of the main semantic variations of love in the Greek and Latin of the Church Fathers and the medieval Latin of Scholasticism -
Reflections on The Malleus Maleficarum in Light of the Trial of Joan of Arc
Posted on June 27, 2012 | No CommentsAlthough Joan’s trial took place in France and The Malleus Maleficarum was published in Germany, they are suitable for comparison because this text became the definitive manual for witchcraft inquisitors across Europe. -
Bogomils, Cathars, Lollards, and the High Social Position of Women During the Middle Ages
Posted on June 24, 2012 | No CommentsDuring the 12th century, if not slightly earlier, Western Europe lived through a period of economic and social upheavel termed by many historians the 12th c. Renaissance. One of its aspects is related to the considerable emancipation of women mostly in Southern France, a development which spread over to Italy, Flanders, and later, England. One can even detect social zones where real emancipation was axhieved. -
The War Against Heresy in Medieval Europe
Posted on June 4, 2012 | No CommentsNo surviving writer suggested on the eve of the millennium that the propagation of heresy of heresy among the people of Western Europe was active, or that any of the heresies of antiquity had survived. -
Imagining the Witch: A Comparison between Fifteenth-Century Witches within Medieval Christian Thought and the Persecution of Jews and Heretics in the Middle Ages
Posted on May 23, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper will examine how the prominent image of the witch in Christian thought during the early modern period emerged from earlier images of the non-Christian Other, Jews and heretics for example. -
Religious Movement as a Necessity for Early Middle Age ‘Heretics’ and the Church
Posted on May 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe nature of the 'Christian Middle Ages' in Europe and the interaction of 'heretical groups' operating within France is anything but the simplistic model that we conjure in our minds when we hear the terms 'Christian' Europe and 'heretics'. -
From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism’s Charismatic Appeal
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe Cathars believed in a dualist cosmology that posited the existence of two coeternal gods, one good and one evil. -
Lollard Theology: A Soteriological Analysis of the English Wycliffite Sermon Cycle
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsPrototestant ideas are evident throughout Wyclif's later works and the flood of Wycliffite tracts and writings which were published in the late 1370's and 80's; but they are most clearly and systematically communicated in the collection of English Wycliffite sermons which were compiled, one sermon for each of the services in the church calendar year, sometime near, or soon after, the end of Wyclif's life. -
“The World on the End of a Reed”: Marguerite Porete and the annihilation of an identity in medieval and modern representations – a reassessment
Posted on February 20, 2012 | No CommentsCentral to the aims of this thesis is the question “how did Porete „fit‟ the religious landscape of her period?” A seeming obstacle to this pursuit are claims from within the scholarship that Porete did not „fit‟ at all, but was, rather, as an aberration amidst other female mystics of the period.
