6 Ergebnisse.

Examining the dynamic interplay between competing medieval notions of Christian observance, this book traces the escalating confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority. It explores how diverse culture and regional settings influence major disputes over ...

Keine Beschreibung.

Between Orders and Heresy suggests new ways of thinking about the modes of religious life that characterized the medieval religious experience.

First English translation of seminal essays on heresy and other aspects of medieval religious history.

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 al...

This concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages examines the dynamic interplay between competing medieval notions of Christian observance, tracing the escalating confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority between 1100 and 1500. Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the diverse regional and cultural settings in which key disputes over scripture, sacraments, and spiritual hierarchies erupted, ev...