Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries
Subtitle: Playing the Heresy Card
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 17, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781137431042
Description: Accusations of heresy did not arise in a vacuum during the Middle Ages. Polemicists and inquisitors had their own agendas, often involving lay or ecclesiastical politics. Heresy and treason became equated by the thirteenth century, opening the way for stronger measures against dissenters. The present volume addresses the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could be employed to fulfill political aims, from managing the effects of intellectual dissent on popular movements, to manipulating the heresy topos, to mediating the large-scale relationship between ecclesiastical and secular politics, both in Christendom and in the Islamic world.
Notes: Source title: Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries: Playing the Heresy Card (The New Middle Ages)