Heresy in Transition
Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 2005
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7546-5428-5 (ISBN)
Description
The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European culture. The palpable increase in incidences of heresy in the Middle Ages may be said to directly relate to the Christianity's attempts to define orthodoxy and establish conformity at its centre, resulting in the sometimes forceful elimination of Christian sects. In the transition from medieval to early modern times, however, the perception of heresy underwent a profound transformation, ultimately leading to its decriminalization and the emergence of a pluralistic religious outlook. The essays in this volume offer readers a unique insight into this little-understood cultural shift. Half of the chapters investigate the manner in which the church and its attendant civil authorities defined and proscribed heresy, whilst the other half focus on the means by which early modern writers sought to supersede such definition and proscription. The result of these investigations is a multifaceted historical account of the construction and serial reconstruction of one of the key categories of European theological, juristic and political thought. The contributors explore the role of nationalism and linguistic identity in constructions of heresy, its analogies with treason and madness, the role of class and status in the responses to heresy. In doing so they provide fascinating insights into the roots of the historicization of heresy and the role of this historicization in the emergence of religious pluralism.
Reviews / Votes
'... the volume excels in many areas...' Church History 'Scholars of medieval, Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment intellectual and social history should especially benefit from reading this work as it demonstrates an important process of intellectual and social change by means of concrete examples.' Sixteenth Century JournalMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-5428-5 (9780754654285)
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John Christian Laursen | Cary J. Nederman | Ian Hunter
Heresy in Transition
Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
E-Book
04/2016
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
John Christian Laursen | Cary J. Nederman | Ian Hunter
Heresy in Transition
Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
E-Book
04/2016
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Ian Hunter is a professor at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia. John Christian Laursen is a professor in the Political Science Department, University of California, Riverside, USA. Cary J. Nederman is a professor in the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University, USA.
Content
Introduction, Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman; Chapter 1 Before the Coming of Popular Heresy: The Rhetoric of Heresy in English Historiography, c. 700-1154, Paul Antony Hayward; Chapter 2 Heresy, Madness and Possession in the High Middle Ages, Sabina Flanagan; Chapter 3 Accusations of Heresy and Error in the Twelfth-Century Schools: The Witness of Gerhoh of Reichersberg and Otto of Freising, Constant J. Mews; Chapter 4 William of Ockham and Conceptions of Heresy, c.1250-c.1350, Takashi Shogimen; Chapter 5 A Heretic Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret History of Marsiglio of Padua's Defensor Pacis in the Thought of Nicole Oresme, Cary J. Nederman; Chapter 6 Seduced by the Theologians: Aeneas Sylvius and the Hussite Heretics, Thomas A. Fudge; Chapter 7 Heresy Hunting and Clerical Reform: William Warham, John Colet, and the Lollards of Kent, 1511-1512, Craig D'Alton; Chapter 8 Curtailing the Office of the Priest: Two Seventeenth-Century Views of the Causes and Functions of Heresy, Conal Condren; Chapter 9 Historicizing Heresy in the Early German Enlightenment: 'Orthodox' and 'Enthusiast' Variants, Thomas Ahnert; Chapter 10 What is Impartiality? Arnold on Spinoza, Mosheim on Servetus, John Christian Laursen; Chapter 11 Thomasius on the Toleration of Heresy, Ian Hunter; Chapter 12 Exporting Heresiology: Translations and Revisions of Pluquet's Dictionnaire des heresies, Gisela Schluter; Chapter 13 Radical Heretics, Martyrs, or Witnesses of Truth? The Albigenses in Ecclesiastical History and Literature (1550-1850), Sandra Pott;