Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries
Playing the Heresy Card
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Accusations of heresy did not arise in a vacuum during the Middle Ages. Polemicists and inquisitors had their own agendas, often involving lay or ecclesiastical politics. Heresy and treason became equated by the thirteenth century, opening the way for stronger measures against dissenters. The present volume addresses the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could be employed to fulfill political aims, from managing the effects of intellectual dissent on popular movements, to manipulatingthe heresy topos, to mediating the large-scale relationship between ecclesiastical and secular politics, both in Christendom and in the Islamic world.
About this Author
Karen Bollermann is Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Viator, Journal of Medieval History, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, and Glossator.
Cary J. Nederman is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, USA. He is the author or editor of approximately 20 books, including, most recently, A Companion to Marsilius of Padua (2012); Mind Matters (2010); Lineages of European Political Thought: Explorations along the Medieval/Modern Divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel (2009), and Machiavelli (2009). .
Thomas M. Izbicki writes extensively on the late medieval church and canon law. Among his publications are: Protector of the Faith: Cardinal Johannes de Turrecremata and the Defense of the Institutional Church (1981); Reject Aeneas, Accept Pius: Selected Letters of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), edited with Gerald Christianson and Philip Krey (2006); and a translation of Writings on Church and Reform by Nicholas of Cusa (2008).
Cary J. Nederman is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, USA. He is the author or editor of approximately 20 books, including, most recently, A Companion to Marsilius of Padua (2012); Mind Matters (2010); Lineages of European Political Thought: Explorations along the Medieval/Modern Divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel (2009), and Machiavelli (2009). .
Thomas M. Izbicki writes extensively on the late medieval church and canon law. Among his publications are: Protector of the Faith: Cardinal Johannes de Turrecremata and the Defense of the Institutional Church (1981); Reject Aeneas, Accept Pius: Selected Letters of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), edited with Gerald Christianson and Philip Krey (2006); and a translation of Writings on Church and Reform by Nicholas of Cusa (2008).
ISBN:
9781137431042
Format: Hardcover
Series: New Middle Ages
Pages: 264
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014-12-17
Format: Hardcover
Series: New Middle Ages
Pages: 264
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014-12-17
Reviews
"These original essays consider key occasions on which accusations and persecutions of heresy in premodern Western Europe possessed strong political as well as doctrinal dimensions. Together, they challenge formidably the argument of the 'persecuting society' whose driving agency was an ecclesiastical elite, and they open the motives of heresy prosecution to a broader range of social forces. The volume is a major contribution to the lively current scholarship on the subject." - Edward Peters, Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History, University of Pennsylvania, USA
"Gambling metaphors structure this ground-breaking collection and reflect the chancy nature of political and religious dissent, as well as the book's own wager that we will profit from a shift in the traditional emphasis on enforcement to the ways in which accusations could be employed, especially to fulfill political aims - from Joan of Arc to Joachim, from Cathars to conciliarism, from Christian concepts of heresy to Muslim notions of apostasy." - Gerald Christianson, Emeritus Professor ofChurch History, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, USA
"The history of heresy in Christian Europe of the Middle Ages was always a complex brew of ideas and politics. Personal connections counted, and so did the property interests of powerful people and orders. This outstanding collection of detailed studies makes it clear that many of the prevailing generalizations about heresy are no longer valid. The final chapter is an eye-opening study of reactions to heterodoxy in the Muslim world of the time: major thinkers there were more worried about apostasy than heresy, but the political dimension was never absent. Some things never change." - John Christian Laursen, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, USA
"Gambling metaphors structure this ground-breaking collection and reflect the chancy nature of political and religious dissent, as well as the book's own wager that we will profit from a shift in the traditional emphasis on enforcement to the ways in which accusations could be employed, especially to fulfill political aims - from Joan of Arc to Joachim, from Cathars to conciliarism, from Christian concepts of heresy to Muslim notions of apostasy." - Gerald Christianson, Emeritus Professor ofChurch History, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, USA
"The history of heresy in Christian Europe of the Middle Ages was always a complex brew of ideas and politics. Personal connections counted, and so did the property interests of powerful people and orders. This outstanding collection of detailed studies makes it clear that many of the prevailing generalizations about heresy are no longer valid. The final chapter is an eye-opening study of reactions to heterodoxy in the Muslim world of the time: major thinkers there were more worried about apostasy than heresy, but the political dimension was never absent. Some things never change." - John Christian Laursen, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, USA
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