Among these is the rich mass of documentation relating to the inquisition of heretical depravity in Languedoc in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
The burning at Mont-Aime: Thibaut of Champagne’s preparations for the Barons’ Crusade of 1239
May 21, 2011 By
A little more than a month before he planned to go on crusade to the Holy Land, Thibaut IV of Champagne (1201–1253) presided over one of the largest burnings of heretics ever to take place in northern France, in which some 180 people were executed.
Manuel I Komnenos and Michael Glycas: A Twelfth-Century Defense and Refutation of Astrology
May 7, 2011 By
Manuel I Komnenos and Michael Glycas: A Twelfth-Century Defense and Refutation ofAstrology George, Demetra Culture and Cosmos, Vol. 5 no 1 (2001) Abstract Manuel Komnenos I, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire composed a defense of astrology to the Church Fathers, in which he asserted that this discipline was compatible with Christian doctrine. Theologian Michael Glykas, possibly imprisoned […]
Negotiating Interfaith Relations in Eastern Christendom: Pope Gregory IX, Bela IV of Hungary, and the Latin Empire
April 24, 2011 By
Negotiating Interfaith Relations in Eastern Christendom: Pope Gregory IX, Bela IV of Hungary, and the Latin Empire Lower, Michael (University of Minnesota) Essays in Medieval Studies, Vol.21 (2004) Abstract At the beginning of the thirteenth century Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) laid a framework for centralizing papal power over Christian encounters with non-Christians. He enacted legislation to separate Jews from Christians, […]
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY
April 11, 2011 By
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY Hobbins, Daniel THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC, Harvard University Press (2005) Abstract Joan of Arc was a courageous and combative woman, a resistance fighter who lived in a man’s world during the Middle Ages. The official records of her infamous trial […]
The Problem of Cathar Apocalypticism
March 27, 2011 By
Of all the heresies in the Middle Ages, none posed more of a threat to the Catholic Church in either perception or reality than did Catharism.
Making Enemies: Latin Christendom in the Age of Reform
March 24, 2011 By
Making Enemies: Latin Christendom in the Age of Reform By R.I. Moore Historien, Vol.6 (2006) Introduction: In the district of Toulouse a damnable heresy has lately arisen, which, after the nature of a cancer, gradually diffusing itself over the neighbouring places, has already infected vast numbers throughout Gascony and other provinces; and while, serpent-like, it […]
Poverty and Polygyny as Political Protest: The Waldensians and Mormons
March 20, 2011 By
This paper examines Waldensianism and Mormonism, two very different religious movements, separated by time, space, cultural, and economic conditions.
Taking the Templar Habit: Rule, Initiation Ritual, and the Accusations against the Order
March 7, 2011 By
Taking the Templar Habit: Rule, Initiation Ritual, and the Accusations against the Order Edgeller, Johnathan James MA Thesis, Texas Tech University, August (2010) Abstract Originally the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon were fewer than a dozen knights, pilgrim knights who had sworn to protect travellers to the Holy Land. Their seal exalted this humility by […]
The Heretic’s Tale: Adam Duff O’Toole (died 1327 AD)
February 24, 2011 By
The Heretic’s Tale: Adam Duff O’Toole (died 1327 AD) Lecture by Bernadette Williams Given at the city of Dublin on 19 October 2010 as part of the ‘Tales of Medieval Dublin’ The Heretic’s Tale from Dublin City Public Libraries on Vimeo. Dr Bernadette Williams has a PhD from Trinity College on the Latin annals of […]
On Cathars, Albigenses, and good men of Languedoc
February 13, 2011 By
The Byzantine View of the Bogomils: A Heresiological Approach
February 1, 2011 By
The Byzantine View of the Bogomils: A Heresiological Approach By Hisatsugu Kusabu Paper given at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London, 2006 Introduction: The condemnation of Basil the Bogomil and his followers (ca. 1099) is a remarkable event not only for the history of Byzantine heresies, but also for Byzantine heresiology. Because of this […]
Representation in the Gesta Henrici Quinti
January 31, 2011 By
‘Not in the strict sense a chronicle or history, and certainly not a ‘compilation’, it is rather an original and skilful piece of propaganda in which narrative is deliberately used to further the larger theme.’
Eckbert of Schönau and Catharism: A Reevaluation
January 30, 2011 By
Eckbert of Schönau and Catharism: A Reevaluation By Robert Harrison Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol.22:1 (1991) Introduction: During the past forty years, scholars of medieval heresy have reconstructed the rise of Catharism in twelfth-century France and Italy with ever greater clarity, aided by the discovery of valuable primary sources and an […]
Sibilla Peyre of Arques: The Motivated Construction of Experience and Self in an Inquisitorial Deposition
January 24, 2011 By
By the end of the thirteenth century Languedocian Catharism had been almost entirely eradicated, but the first decade of the fourteenth century saw what is often referred to as the ‘Autier revival’.
Holy Heretics in Later Medieval Italy
January 22, 2011 By
Holy Heretics in Later Medieval Italy By Janine Larmon Peterson Past and Present, Vol. 204:1 (2009) Introduction: The appeal of martyrs is grounded in their willingness to violate socio-cultural norms and, as a consequence, become extra-ordinary individuals. Some early Christian theologians, such as Clement of Alexandria (d. c.215), believed that all faithful Christians would necessarily break […]
“Checkmate to the time, the forms and the place…”. Meister Eckhart between flowing of time and stillness of Eternity
January 15, 2011 By
“Checkmate to the time, the forms and the place…”. Meister Eckhart between flowing of time and stillness of Eternity Raschietti, Matteo Mirabilia 11, Tempo e Eternidade na Idade Média, Jun-Dez (2010) Abstract The conception of time in Eckhart’s reflection is a fundamental point that joins the thought of German Dominican: the metaphysic model of development of being […]
THE ELEVATION OF THE HOST: A REACTION TO TWELFTH CENTURY HERESY
January 2, 2011 By
THE ELEVATION OF THE HOST: A REACTION TO TWELFTH CENTURY HERESY GRANT, S.J., GERARD G. (St. Mary’s College, Kansas) Theological Studies Vol.1 (1940) Abstract This essay offers a somewhat novel interpretation of the origin of the major elevation in the Roman liturgy.The question has been gone into rather exhaustively in recent years; several monographs and numerous […]
Reading Devotion. Asceticism and Affectivity in Love’s Mirror
December 30, 2010 By
In this article, I will examine the affective elements of Love’s Mirror in an effort to re-evaluate its connections to late-medieval devotional culture.
Ockham on the Concept
November 19, 2010 By
Ockham on the Concept Boler, John (University of Washington) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract It is a commonplace of Ockham commentary that he changed his position on what concepts are. While I see no reason to question the general lines of the familiar story, I do think there are some interesting details along […]
Divine Needs, Divine Illusions: Preliminary Remarks Toward a Comparative Study of Meister Eckhart and Ibn AľArabi
November 15, 2010 By
Divine Needs, Divine Illusions: Preliminary Remarks Toward a Comparative Study of Meister Eckhart and Ibn AľArabi Almond, Ian (Bosphorus University, Istanbul) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001) Abstract A surprising number of Western studies or translations of the Sufi thinker and mystic Ibn Al’Arabi (1165–1240) make some kind of reference to the German preacher Meister […]
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