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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459750703321

Autore

Deane Jennifer Kolpacoff <1970->

Titolo

A history of medieval heresy and inquisition [[electronic resource] /] / Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield, 2010

ISBN

1-283-21360-5

9786613213600

0-7425-6811-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (478 p.)

Collana

Critical issues in history

Disciplina

272/.2

Soggetti

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Heresy

Inquisition

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One; Good Christians, Heresy, and the Apostolic Model; Chapter Two; Poverty, Preaching, and the Poor of Lyon; Chapter Three; Lawyer Popes, Mendicant Preachers, and New Inquisitorial Procedures; Chapter Four; Spiritual Franciscans, the Poverty Controversy, and the Apocalypse; Chapter Five; Mysticism, Lay Religious Women, and the Problem of Spiritual Authority; Chapter Six; Medieval Magic, Demonology, and Witchcraft; Chapter Seven; Wyclif, the Word of God, and Inquisition in England; Chapter Eight; Reform, Revolution, and the Lay Chalice in Bohemia

EpilogueNotes; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages examines the dynamic interplay between competing medieval notions of Christian observance, tracing the escalating confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority between 1100 and 1500. Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the diverse regional and cultural settings in which key disputes over scripture, sacraments, and spiritual hierarchies erupted, events increasingly shaped by new ecclesiastical ideas and inquisitorial procedures.



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