Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages
Essays on the Work of R.I. Moore
Biographical note
Michael Frassetto, Ph.D. (1993) in History, University of Delaware, is religion editor at Encylopaedia Britannica. He has published numerous works on heresy and Ademar of Chabannes and edited the volume The Year 1000.
Readership
All those interested in church history, religious dissent and its persecution, and social and institutional history, as well as historians and religious scholars.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction, Michael Frassetto
1. Moore’s Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Travels in the Agro-Literate Polity, Edward Peters
2. Ademar of Chabannes and the Bogomils, Daniel F. Callahan
3. Italian Society and the Origins of Eleventh-Century Western Heresy, Arthur Siegel
4. Pagans, Heretics, Saracens, and Jews in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes, Michael Frassetto
5. Bogomil Influences on Western Heresy, Bernard Hamilton
6. Northern Catharism, Malcolm Barber
7. Authority and the Cathar Heresy in the Northern Languedoc, Claire Taylor
8. The Massacre at Béziers July 22, 1209: A Revisionist Look, Laurence W. Marvin
9. Heresy, Good Men, and Nomenclature, Mark Pegg
10. Cathars, Confraternities, and Civic Religion: The Blurry Border between Heresy and Orthodoxy, Susan Taylor Snyder
11. Idolatry and Fraud: the Case of Riperando and the Holy Managlia, Carol Lansing
12. Chasing Phantoms: Philip IV and the Fantastic, James Given
13. Afterthoughts on The Origins of European Dissent, R.I. Moore
Index
List of Contributors
Introduction, Michael Frassetto
1. Moore’s Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Travels in the Agro-Literate Polity, Edward Peters
2. Ademar of Chabannes and the Bogomils, Daniel F. Callahan
3. Italian Society and the Origins of Eleventh-Century Western Heresy, Arthur Siegel
4. Pagans, Heretics, Saracens, and Jews in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes, Michael Frassetto
5. Bogomil Influences on Western Heresy, Bernard Hamilton
6. Northern Catharism, Malcolm Barber
7. Authority and the Cathar Heresy in the Northern Languedoc, Claire Taylor
8. The Massacre at Béziers July 22, 1209: A Revisionist Look, Laurence W. Marvin
9. Heresy, Good Men, and Nomenclature, Mark Pegg
10. Cathars, Confraternities, and Civic Religion: The Blurry Border between Heresy and Orthodoxy, Susan Taylor Snyder
11. Idolatry and Fraud: the Case of Riperando and the Holy Managlia, Carol Lansing
12. Chasing Phantoms: Philip IV and the Fantastic, James Given
13. Afterthoughts on The Origins of European Dissent, R.I. Moore
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