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The first book to deal with all the principal treatments of heresy and anti-heretical writings during their heyday in the thirteenth century.
Heresy is always relative; the traces that it leaves to us are distorted and one-sided. In the last few decades, historians have responded to these problems by developing increasingly sophisticated methodologies that help to unravel and illuminate the tangled layers from which the texts that describe heresy are built, but in the process have made our reading of heresy fractured and disconnected.
Heresy and Heretics seeks to redress this by reading the different types of anti-heretical writing as part of a wider, connected tradition, considering all the principal orthodox treatments of heresy for the first time. Drawn from the mid-thirteenth century, a time when both medieval heresy and the church's response to it were at their zenith, they describe a spectrum of material that ranges from the theological arguments of some of the greatest thinkers of the age to the homely sermons of the wanderingpreachers. In considering the whole scope of anti-heretical writing from this period, it becomes apparent that, far from being an artificial construct isolated from reality, the church's treatment of heresy in fact had a far morecomplex relationship with its subject matter.
Dr L.J. Sackville teaches in the Department of History, University of York.
Heresy is always relative; the traces that it leaves to us are distorted and one-sided. In the last few decades, historians have responded to these problems by developing increasingly sophisticated methodologies that help to unravel and illuminate the tangled layers from which the texts that describe heresy are built, but in the process have made our reading of heresy fractured and disconnected.
Heresy and Heretics seeks to redress this by reading the different types of anti-heretical writing as part of a wider, connected tradition, considering all the principal orthodox treatments of heresy for the first time. Drawn from the mid-thirteenth century, a time when both medieval heresy and the church's response to it were at their zenith, they describe a spectrum of material that ranges from the theological arguments of some of the greatest thinkers of the age to the homely sermons of the wanderingpreachers. In considering the whole scope of anti-heretical writing from this period, it becomes apparent that, far from being an artificial construct isolated from reality, the church's treatment of heresy in fact had a far morecomplex relationship with its subject matter.
Dr L.J. Sackville teaches in the Department of History, University of York.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 240
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: York Medieval Press
Publication Date:
21 August 2014
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781903153567
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, European history: medieval period, middle ages, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, History of religion
The sheer scale of material covered and its detailed analysis constitute a significant contribution to medieval scholarship.
A well-researched analysis.
This is the clearest and most comprehensive analysis yet published of the literature generated by the effort to confute and eliminate heresy in the thirteenth century. [...] students of thirteenth century heresy will be in Sackville's debt for her careful analysis of the varieties of the genre.
A comprehensive overview of the anti-heretical literature of the central Middle Ages. [...] Sackville has made available an exceptionally useful descriptive guide that takes the reader on a tour among inquisitional literature, registers, legal texts, and antiheretical tracts. All of this is bound together with an interesting textual study of various themes found in these works. [It] will be useful to both researchers and students, providing a finding guide and descriptive assessment of particular late-twelfth- and thirteenth-century inquisitional literature.
A well-researched analysis.
This is the clearest and most comprehensive analysis yet published of the literature generated by the effort to confute and eliminate heresy in the thirteenth century. [...] students of thirteenth century heresy will be in Sackville's debt for her careful analysis of the varieties of the genre.
A comprehensive overview of the anti-heretical literature of the central Middle Ages. [...] Sackville has made available an exceptionally useful descriptive guide that takes the reader on a tour among inquisitional literature, registers, legal texts, and antiheretical tracts. All of this is bound together with an interesting textual study of various themes found in these works. [It] will be useful to both researchers and students, providing a finding guide and descriptive assessment of particular late-twelfth- and thirteenth-century inquisitional literature.
Introduction
To avoid evil: anti-heretical polemic
To retreat from sin: texts for edification
Who walks in shadow: the canon-legal perspective
High is the heart of man: inquisition texts
De heresi
Appendix: Perfecti as a term to denote heretics
Bibliography
To avoid evil: anti-heretical polemic
To retreat from sin: texts for edification
Who walks in shadow: the canon-legal perspective
High is the heart of man: inquisition texts
De heresi
Appendix: Perfecti as a term to denote heretics
Bibliography