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Nordic Witchcraft in Transition: Impotence, Heresy and Diabolism in 14th-century Bergen

November 26, 2012 By Medievalists.net

Within the orbit of witchcraft, what is the relationship between sexuality, heresy, and diabolism?

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Cathars, Christianity, Europe, Fifteenth Century, Folk Studies, Fourteenth Century, Gender, Heinrich Kramer, Heresy, Jacob Sprenger, Late Middle Ages, Magic, Malleus Maleficarum, Medieval Women, Norway, Occult, Reformation, Religious Life, Scandinavia, Sexuality, Social History, Trolls, Waldensians, Witchcraft, Witches

“The Eucharist and the Negotiation of Orthodoxy in the High Middle Ages”

November 15, 2012 By Medievalists.net

This 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.

Filed Under: Conferences, Features Tagged With: Cathars, Christianity, Conferences, Franciscan, Hagiography, Heresy, Late Middle Ages, Liturgy, Mendicant Orders, Monasticism, Orthodox, Papacy, Pope Alexander III, Pope Innocent III, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Social History, St. Francis of Assisi, Waldensians

Waldensians at the turn of the fifteenth century in the Duchy of Austria: Perception of Heresy and Action against Heretics

October 1, 2012 By Medievalists.net

The 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.