
Heresy and the Making of European Culture
Medieval and Modern Perspectives
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- English
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Heresy and the Making of European Culture
Medieval and Modern Perspectives
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations and Table
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART I THE WHEAT AND THE TARES
- PART II INVENTING HERESIES
- PART III APPROACHING LITERARY AND NARRATIVE SOURCES
- PART IV LAW AND THE INQUISITION
- PART V HERESY, PLACE AND COMMUNITY
- PART VI DISTANT MIRRORS: HERESIES, ORTHODOXIES AND MODERNITIES
- Index