The Templar Trials: Did the System Work?
Although the trials in general were held with enormous personal expenditures and by obviously careful observation of procedural rules, the ’system did not really work’; it was undermined by the dynamics of a legal instrument (that is, torture), which in the end was based on the use of violence.
Wellsprings of Heresy: Monks, Myth and Making Manichaeans in Orleans and Aquitaine
The execution of a number of clerics at Orléans in 1022 is viewed as a watershed moment in the history of heresy in the West.
Conflict and Conscience: Ideological War and the Albigensian Crusade
This thesis is a case study on ethics within war. The thirteenth century Albigensian Crusade was a war against a heretical religious ideology known as Catharism whose tenets threatened the social order of Europe.
The Polemical use of the Albigensian Crusade during the French Wars of Religion
The Polemical use of the Albigensian Crusade during the French Wars of Religion Racaut, Luc French History 13, 3 (1999) Abstract From the outset…
Amor vs. Roma: Cathars and the Birth of the Inquisition
Amor vs. Roma: Cathars and the Birth of the Inquisition From the CBC Radio series Ideas, this 2-part show examines the rise and…
Learning by Doing: Coping with Inquisitors in Medieval Languedoc
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
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
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…
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY Hobbins, Daniel THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC, Harvard University…
The Problem of Cathar Apocalypticism
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
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…