Defining Heresy
Subtitle: Inquisition, Theology, and Papal Policy in the Time of Jacques Fournier
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9789004304253
Subjects: Church history, middle ages, 600-1500; Heresies and heretics
Description: In Defining Heresy, Irene Bueno investigates the methods and discourses of anti-heretical repression in the first half of the fourteenth century, focusing on the figure of Jacques Fournier/Benedict XII (c.1284-1342), bishop-inquisitor, theologian, and, eventually, pope at Avignon.