Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229

by Kienzle, Beverly Mayne

• ISBN13: 9781903153000
• ISBN10: 190315300X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: York Medieval Pr

Summary

Led by the example of Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian monks turned their attention to the world outside the monastery walls in response to the threat posed by heretical Christians, in particular the Cathars. The white monks, with other intellectuals, turned to pen, pulpit and popular preaching to counteract heresy, some accepting posts as bishops and papal legates, helping and even directing the Albigensian crusade, and contributing to the formulation of procedures for inquisition. Kienzle examines this important but little-studied aspect of Cistercian history to discover how and why the Order undertook endeavours that drew the monks outside their monastic vocation. The analysis of texts about the preaching campaigns and their contexts illuminate the ways in which medieval monastic authors perceived heresy, preached, and wrote against it.Professor BEVERLY MAYNE KIENZLE teaches at Harvard Divinity School.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
List of Abbreviations	viii
Chronology	xiv
Preface	xvii
Introduction	1	(15)
Appendix to Introduction Deconstructing: Close Reading, Rhetorical Criticism, and Historiography of Persecution and Heresy	16	(9)
The Lord's Vineyard in the Twelfth Century	25	(31)
Monastic Spirituality and Literature: the Domestic Vineyard	56	(22)
Bernard of Clairvaux, the 1143/44 Sermons and the 1145 Preaching Mission: From the Domestic to the Lord's Vineyard	78	(31)
Henry of Clairvaux, the 1178 and 1181 Missions, and the Campaign against the Waldensians: Driving the Foxes from the Vineyard	109	(26)
Innocent III's Papacy and the Crusade Years, 1198-1229: Weeding the Vineyard	135	(39)
Helinand of Froidmont and the Events of 1229: Planting Virtues in the Vineyard	174	(28)
Conclusion	202	(17)
Bibliography	219	(20)
Index	239