The Politics of Heresy

The Politics of Heresy
Author: Lester Kurtz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2022-05-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520307909

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Heresy and the Making of European Culture

Heresy and the Making of European Culture
Author: Andrew P. Roach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317122496

Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The papers collected here - reflecting the disciplines of history, literature, theology, philosophy, economics and law - examine the intellectual and social investments characteristic of both deliberate religious dissent such as the Cathars of Languedoc, the Balkan Bogomils, the Hussites of Bohemia and those who knowingly or unknowingly bent or broke the rules, creating their own 'unofficial orthodoxies'. Attempts to understand, police and eradicate all these, through methods such as the Inquisition, required no less ingenuity. The ambivalent dynamic evident in the tensions between coercion and dissent is still recognisable and productive in the world today.

Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530

Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530
Author: Peter Biller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1996-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521575768

Collective volume exploring connections between literacy and heresy in late medieval Europe.

Les grandes hérésies

Les grandes hérésies
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Publisher: Artège Editions
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2022-06-08
Genre: History
ISBN:

Qu'est-ce qu'une hérésie ? Quelles ont été les grandes hérésies du passé ? Quel profit pouvons-nous encore tirer de leur étude ?Cet ouvrage nous offre sans doute la meilleure synthèse jamais publiée sur le sujet. La confusion et le manque de sens des proportions propres à l'esprit moderne ont rendu la question obscure voire inintelligible ; elle demeure pourtant essentielle pour qui voudrait non seulement comprendre les ressorts profonds de notre histoire, mais aussi identifier les sources de nos convulsions présentes.Servi par l'écriture claire et limpide, l'érudition colossale et le souffle prophétique de l'auteur, cet essai condense et met en scène les plus redoutables tentatives de subversion dont a fait l'objet l'Église catholique, depuis ses origines jusqu'à nos jours :• L'hérésie arienne et sa cristallisation au coeur de l'Empire romain.• L'islam, dont Belloc annonce l'inévitable résurgence.• L'hérésie albigeoise, forme médiévale de l'affection manichéenne.• La Réforme et l'implosion moderne de la Chrétienté.• L'entreprise de destruction contemporaine, manifeste à tous les plans de la vie sociale. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) est un géant oublié des lettres anglaises. Grand ami de G.K. Chesterton, cet historien, figure incontournable de la pensée catholique au XXe siècle, a laissé une oeuvre de plus de 150 ouvrages, aussi divers que substantiels.Cette première traduction française de The Great Heresies (1938 constitue un événement éditorial majeur. Nous la devons à Benjamin Ferrando dont le prologue particulièrement riche et savoureux nous présente un écrivain unique, un homme aussi lucide qu'attachant qui mit toute sa combativité au service de la Vérité.

Defining Heresy

Defining Heresy
Author: Irene Bueno
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004304266

In Defining Heresy, Irene Bueno investigates the theories and practices of anti-heretical repression in the first half of the fourteenth century, focusing on the figure of Jacques Fournier/Benedict XII (c.1284-1342). Throughout his career as a bishop-inquisitor in Languedoc, theologian, and, eventually, pope at Avignon, Fournier made a multi-faceted contribution to the fight against religious dissent. Making use of judicial, theological, and diplomatic sources, the book sheds light on the multiplicity of methods, discourses, and textual practices mobilized to define the bounds of heresy at the end of the Middle Ages. The integration of these commonly unrelated areas of evidence reveals the intellectual and political pressures that inflected the repression of heretics and dissidents in the peculiar context of the Avignon papacy.

Heresies of the High Middle Ages

Heresies of the High Middle Ages
Author: Walter Leggett Wakefield
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 888
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231096324

More than seventy documents, ranging in date from the early eleventh century to the early fourteenth century and representing both orthodox and heretical viewpoints are included.