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Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe

di Edward Peters

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Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels by a religion. To maintain a belief in opposition to the orthodoxy was to set oneself in opposition not merely to church and state but to a whole culture in all of its manifestations. From the eleventh century to the fifteenth, however, dissenting movements appeared with greater frequency, attracted more followers, acquired philosophical as well as theological dimensions, and occupied more and more the time and the minds of religious and civil authorities. In the perception of dissent and in the steps taken to deal with it lies the history of medieval heresy and the force it exerted on religious, social, and political communities long after the Middle Ages.In this volume, Edward Peters makes available the most compact and wide-ranging collection of source materials in translation on medieval orthodoxy and heterodoxy in social context.… (altro)
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Every person is a unique entity. Because there are billions of people, there are billions of individual perspectives and beliefs. This creates a problem for any organization whose lifeblood is that everybody thinks along the same lines. Almost from the beginning, Christianity has had its share of splinter groups, in-fighting, and outright civil wars. Edward Peters, in Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, traces the path of Christian writers who focus their treatises on heretics, sects, and orthodoxy. From Tertullian to John of Brevicoxa, we get nearly one thousand years of church voices on those who seek to disagree.

For some, even believing that you had a choice in the matter branded you a heretic. You either accepted church dogma or you were damned for eternity. People believed that around every corner was someone who could lead your thinking astray, so hyper-vigilance on the matter of church law was par for the course. The separate spreads of Manichaeism, the Cathars, and the Waldensians lead to continuous proclamations of what exactly was orthodox and what wasn’t. Each edict, each papal bull, and each sermon lead to different church philosophies and laws that had to be parsed through, understood, and protected from heretical thought.

Peters’s collection of church writings is an intense look at church history on a single subject. This isn’t a casual read, but sheds a ton of light on a different struggle within the Christian Church. Here, we get not only founding treatises, but also side documents, backstories, and quick histories on many heretical sects. If you’re at all interested in church history, then this one will have a ton of history and original information. Peters tries not comment too much on the treatises, but rather presents them for the reader to digest. A rich and enlightening book. ( )
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Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels by a religion. To maintain a belief in opposition to the orthodoxy was to set oneself in opposition not merely to church and state but to a whole culture in all of its manifestations. From the eleventh century to the fifteenth, however, dissenting movements appeared with greater frequency, attracted more followers, acquired philosophical as well as theological dimensions, and occupied more and more the time and the minds of religious and civil authorities. In the perception of dissent and in the steps taken to deal with it lies the history of medieval heresy and the force it exerted on religious, social, and political communities long after the Middle Ages.In this volume, Edward Peters makes available the most compact and wide-ranging collection of source materials in translation on medieval orthodoxy and heterodoxy in social context.

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