Heresy and heretics in the thirteenth century : the textual representations
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Heresy and heretics in the thirteenth century : the textual representations
（Heresy and inquisition in the Middle Age, v. 1）
York Medieval Press, 2014, c2011
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"The University of York"
"First published 2011 York Medieval Press, York. Paperback edition 2014"--T.p. verso
"Boydell Press"--Back cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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