A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages
A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages

Author: Marina Benedetti

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-06-27

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 900442041X

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The medieval dissenters known as ‘Waldenses’, named after their first founder, Valdes of Lyons, have long attracted careful scholarly study, especially from specialists writing in Italian, French and German. Waldenses were found across continental Europe, from Aragon to the Baltic and East-Central Europe. They were long-lived, resilient, and diverse. They lived in a special relationship with the prevailing Catholic culture, making use of the Church’s services but challenging its claims. Many Waldenses are known mostly, or only, because of the punitive measures taken by inquisitors and the Church hierarchy against them. This volume brings for the first time a wide-ranging, multi-authored interpretation of the medieval Waldenses to an English-language readership, across Europe and over the four centuries until the Reformation. Contributors: Marina Benedetti, Peter Biller, Luciana Borghi Cedrini, Euan Cameron, Jacques Chiffoleau, Albert de Lange, Andrea Giraudo, Franck Mercier, Grado Giovanni Merlo, Georg Modestin, Martine Ostorero, Damian J. Smith, Claire Taylor, and Kathrin Utz Tremp.

Heresy in the Middle Ages
Heresy in the Middle Ages

Author: Andrea Janelle Dickens

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1506498213

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Medieval Christianity evolved economic, intellectual, and theological structures to consolidate authority and test orthodoxy. This book investigates the relationships between the medieval church and the growing number of heretical groups, highlighting where they were motivated by overlapping concerns such as a zeal to live the apostolic life.

A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages
A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages

Author: Steven Cartwright

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-11-09

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9004236716

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This volume surveys the interpretation of St. Paul by patristic and medieval exegetes. It also examines the use of Paul by medieval reformers, canon lawyers, and spiritual teachers and Paul’s portrayal in medieval literature and art.

A Companion to the Medieval World
A Companion to the Medieval World

Author: Carol Lansing

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-12-26

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 111842512X

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Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themes Includes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship; and the rise of the West Explores Europe’s understanding of the wider world to place the study of the medieval society in a global context

Encountering Others, Understanding Ourselves in Medieval and Early Modern Thought
Encountering Others, Understanding Ourselves in Medieval and Early Modern Thought

Author: Nicolas Faucher

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-12-05

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 3110748932

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Recent research has challenged our view of the Abrahamic religious traditions as unilaterally intolerant and incapable of recognizing otherness in all its diversity and richness; but a diachronic and comparative study of how these traditions deal with otherness is yet to appear. This volume aims to contribute to such a study by presenting different treatments of otherness in medieval and early modern thought. Part I: Altruism deals with attitudes and behaviors that benefit others, regardless of its motives. We deal with the social rights and emotions as well as the moral obligations that the very existence of other human beings, whatever their characteristics, creates for a community. Part II: Religious recognition and toleration considers identity, toleration and mutual recognition created by the existence of religious or ethnic otherness in a given social, religious or political community. Part III: Evil deals with religious otherness that is considered evil and rejected such as heretics and malevolent, demonic entities. The volume will ultimately inform the reader on the nature of religious toleration (including beliefs and doctrines, even emotions) as well as of the self-definition of religious communities when encountering and defining otherness in different ways.

A Companion to the Reformation World
A Companion to the Reformation World

Author: R. Po-chia Hsia

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 1405178655

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This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history. Presents Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation. Examines Reformation in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the Americas. Takes a broad, inclusive approach – covering both traditional topics and cutting-edge areas of debate.

Current Trends in the Historiography of Inquisitions
Current Trends in the Historiography of Inquisitions

Author: Autori Vari

Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice

Published: 2024-03-28T10:04:00+01:00

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13:

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This volume launches the book series of “Inquire – International Centre for Research on Inquisitions” of the University of Bologna, a research network that engages with the history of religious justice from the 13th to the 20th century. This first publication offers twenty chapters that take stock of the current historiography on medieval and early modern Inquisitions (the Spanish, Portuguese and Roman Inquisitions) and their modern continuations. Through the analysis of specific questions related to religious repression in Europe and the Iberian colonial territories extending from the Middle Ages to today, the contributions here examine the history of the perception of tribunals and the most recent historiographical trends. New research perspectives thus emerge on a subject that continues to intrigue those interested in the practices of justice and censorship, the history of religious dissent and the genesis of intolerance in the Western world and beyond.