A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition (Critical Issues in World and International History) – Ebook PDF Version – Digital Instant Dowload.

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0742555763
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0742555761
• Author:  Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane

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 loaded terms 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 sparked confrontations between Christians, including access to scripture, apostolic models of poverty and preaching, the Eucharist and sacramental power, and clerical corruption and wealth. She traces the means by which Church elites developed an increasingly complex set of inquisitorial procedures and resources to identify, label, and repress ‘heresy,’ examines the various regional eruptions of such confrontations across medieval Europe, and considers the judicial processes that brought many to the stake.

Table contents:

Introduction: The Contours of Authority in Medieval Christendom

Chapter 1: Good Christians, Heresy, and the Apostolic Model

Chapter 2: Poverty, Preaching, and the Poor of Lyon

Chapter 3: Lawyer Popes, Mendicant Preachers, and New Inquisitorial Procedures

Chapter 4: Spiritual Franciscans, the Poverty Controversy, and the Apocalypse

Chapter 5: Mysticism, Lay Religious Women, and the Problem of Spiritual Authority

Chapter 6: Medieval Magic, Demonology, and Witchcraft

Chapter 7: Wyclif, the Word of God, and Inquisition in England

Chapter 8: Reform, Revolution, and the Lay Chalice in BohemiaEpilogue

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