Heresy and literacy, 1000-1530
By: edited by Peter Biller and Anne Hudson.
Contributors: Biller, Peter.; Hudson, Anne, 1938-
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Series: Cambridge studies in medieval literature -- 23.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Heresies, Christian -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500; Literacy -- Europe -- History; Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500; Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Heresy and literacy : earlier history of the theme / Peter Biller; title: Literacy and the making of heresy 1000-1150 / R.I. Moore; title: Wisdom from the east : the reception by the Cathers of eastern dualist texts / Bernard Hamilton; title: The Cathars of Languedoc and written materials / Peter Biller; title: Italian Catharism and written culture / Lorenzo Paolini; title: Heresy and literacy : evidence of the thirteenth-century exempla / Aaron Gurevich; title: The literacy of Waldensianism from Valdes to 1400 / Alexander Patschovsky; title: The Waldenisian books / Anne Brenon; title: Waldesians in the Dauphiné (1400-1530) : from dissidence in texts to dissidence in practice / Pierette Paravy; title: Were the Waldenesians more literate than their contemporaries (1460-1560)? / Gabriel Ausidio; title: Writing and resistance among Beguins of Languedoc and Catalonia / Robert E. Lerner; title: Religious reading amongst the laity in France in the fifteenth century / Geneviéve Hasenohr; title: Laicus litteratus : the paradox of Lollardy / Anne Hudson; title: Literacy and heresy in Hussite Bohemia / František Šmahel; title: Heterodoxy, literacy and print in the early German Reformation / Bob Scribner; title: Literacy, heresy, history, and orthodoxy : perspectives and permutations for the later Middle Ages / R.N. Swanson.