Medievalists.net » Waldensians http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Nordic Witchcraft in Transition: Impotence, Heresy and Diabolism in 14th-century Bergen http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/26/nordic-witchcraft-in-transition-impotence-hersery-and-diabolism-in-14th-century-bergen/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/26/nordic-witchcraft-in-transition-impotence-hersery-and-diabolism-in-14th-century-bergen/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:10:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37496 Within the orbit of witchcraft, what is the relationship between sexuality, heresy, and diabolism?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/26/nordic-witchcraft-in-transition-impotence-hersery-and-diabolism-in-14th-century-bergen/feed/ 0 “The Eucharist and the Negotiation of Orthodoxy in the High Middle Ages” http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/15/the-eucharist-and-the-negotiation-of-orthodoxy-in-the-high-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/15/the-eucharist-and-the-negotiation-of-orthodoxy-in-the-high-middle-ages/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:29:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37161 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/15/the-eucharist-and-the-negotiation-of-orthodoxy-in-the-high-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Waldensians at the turn of the fifteenth century in the Duchy of Austria: Perception of Heresy and Action against Heretics http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/01/waldensians-at-the-turn-of-the-fifteenth-century-in-the-duchy-of-austria-perception-of-heresy-and-action-against-heretics/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/01/waldensians-at-the-turn-of-the-fifteenth-century-in-the-duchy-of-austria-perception-of-heresy-and-action-against-heretics/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 05:34:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36142 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.

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