A history of medieval heresy and inquisition
By: Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
Series: Critical issues in history
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780742555754; 9780742555761; 9780742568112
Description: In this concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the increasingly bitter encounters between piety, reform, dissent, and the institutional Church between 1100 and 1500. Although the loadedterms of "heresy" and "orthodoxy" employed by ecclesiastical officials suggest a clear division between right and wrong, that division was in fact vigorously contested by medieval people at all levels of society. Deane investigates key issues that sparkedconfrontations between Christians, including access to scripture, apostolic models of pover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Good Christians, heresy, and the apostolic model; title: Poverty, preaching, and the poor of Lyons; title: Lawyer popes, mendicant preachers, and new inquisitorial procedures; title: Spiritual Franciscans, the poverty controversy, and the apocalypse; title: Mysticism, lay religious women, and the problem of spiritual authority; title: Medieval magic, demonology, and witchcraft; title: Wyclif, the word of God, and inquisition in England; title: Reform, revolution, and the lay chalice in Bohemia.