Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe

by Peters, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780812211030
• ISBN10: 0812211030
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1980-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

"Here is an excellent collection of texts illustrative of the struggle between medieval sects and ecclesiatical authorities in medieval Europe. . . . Excellent bibliographical essays complement chapter introductions, making this volume unusually valuable

Author Biography

Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe	1	(13)
I ``THE HERETICS OF OLD'': THE DEFINITION OF ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES	13	(44)
Tertullian: An Injunction against Heretics	29	(3)
St. Augustine: On Manichaeism	32	(6)
Theodoret: The Rise of Arianism	38	(3)
Theodoret: Arius's Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia	41	(1)
The Creed of Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381)	41	(1)
Compelle Intrare: The Coercion of Heretics in the Theodosian Code, 438	42	(5)
St. Isidore of Seville: On the Church and the Sects	47	(3)
Alcuin: Against the Adoptionist Heresy of Felix	50	(7)
II THE PROBLEM OF REFORM, DISSENT, AND HERESY IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES	57	(46)
Paul of St. Pere de Chartres: Heretics at Orleans, 1022	66	(6)
Guibert of Nogent: Heretics at Soissons, 1114	72	(3)
William the Monk: The Debate with Henry of Le Mans	75	(3)
Otto of Freising: Arnold of Brescia in Rome, 1148-55	78	(2)
Peter Abelard at the Council of Soissons, 1121: The Historia Calamittatum	80	(7)
St. Bernard to Pope Innocent II: Against Abelard, 1140	87	(4)
Everinus of Steinfeld: Letter to St. Bernard, 1143	91	(4)
St. Bernard: Sermon 65 on The Song of Songs, 1144	95	(8)
III THE CATHARS	103	(36)
The Sermon of Cosmas the Priest against Bogomilism	108	(9)
A Standoff at Lombers, 1165	117	(4)
The Cathar Council at Saint-Felix-de-Caraman, 1167	121	(2)
Pierre des Vaux de Cernay: The Historia Albigensis	123	(2)
Rainier Sacconi: A Thirteenth-Century Inquisitor on Catharism	125	(8)
Chroniclers and Cathars on Catharism: The Heretics of Lombardy	133	(6)
IV THE WALDENSIANS	139	(26)
Etienne de Bourbon: The Waldensians and Vernacular Scripture	144	(1)
Walter Map: On the Waldensians, 1179	144	(3)
Valdes's Profession of Faith	147	(2)
David of Augsburg: On the Waldensians of Bavaria, 1270	149	(1)
The Passau Anonymous: On the Origins of Heresy and the Sect of the Waldensians	150	(15)
V THE WAY OF CARITAS: PREACHING, PENITENCE, AND PASTORALISM	165	(24)
The Third Lateran Council, 1179: Heretics Are Anathema	168	(2)
Pope Lucius III: The Decretal Ad Abolendum, 1184	170	(3)
The Fourth Lateran Council, 1215: Credo and Confession, Canons 1,3,21	173	(5)
Pope Innocent III: The Decretal Cum ex officii nostri, 1207	178	(1)
Burchard of Ursperg: On the New Orders	178	(2)
St. Antony's Sermon to the Fish	180	(2)
St. Thomas Aquinas: Whether Heretics Should Be Tolerated	182	(2)
Pope Innocent III and Durand of Huesca, 1210	184	(5)
VI THE WAY OF POTESTAS: CRUSADE AND CRIMINAL SANCTIONS	189	(28)
Caesarius of Heisterbach: The Stake	193	(1)
The Council of Toulouse, 1229	194	(2)
Pope Gregory IX: The Decretal Ille humani generis, 1231	196	(2)
The Council of Tarragona, 1242	198	(2)
A Manual for Inquisitors at Carcasonne, 1248-49	200	(7)
The Liber Augustalis of Frederick II, 1231	207	(2)
The Schwabenspiegel: Concerning Heretics, 1235	209	(1)
Thirteenth-Century French Royal Legislation Against Heretics	210	(2)
The English Statute De haeretico comburendo, 1401	212	(5)
VII INTELLECTUAL POSITIONS CONDEMNED IN THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES	217	(18)
Errors Condemned at the University of Paris, 1270	220	(1)
Faith and Philosophy in the Arts Faculty of Paris, 1272	221	(2)
The Condemnation of 219 Propositions at Paris, 1277	223	(7)
The Condemnation of Marsiglio of Padua and John of Jandun, 1327	230	(1)
Petrarch: On Some Fourteenth-Century Latin Averroists, 1364	231	(4)
VIII THE SPIRITUAL FRANCISCANS AND VOLUNTARY POVERTY	235	(16)
St. Bonaventure: On dominium and usus	240	(3)
Ubertino da Casale: Violations of dominium and usus	243	(2)
Pope John XXII: The Decretal Gloriosam ecclesiam, 1318, on the Errors of the Fraticelli	245	(2)
Pope John XXII: The Decretal Cum inter nonullas, 1323	247	(1)
James of the March: Against the Spirituals, ca. 1450	248	(3)
IX PEASANT CATHARS IN THE ARIEGE IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY	251	(14)
The Inquisitorial Register of Jacques Fournier	253	(12)
X THE AGE OF WYCLIF AND HUS	265	(44)
John Wyclif: On Indulgences	267	(4)
Pope Gregory XI to the Masters of Oxford: On Wyclif	271	(2)
Wyclif's Response to Pope Urban VI	273	(1)
The Council of Constance, 1415: The Condemnation of Wyclifism	274	(3)
The Lollard Conclusions, 1394	277	(5)
John Hus: On Simony	282	(4)
The Council of Constance, 1415: The Condemnation of Hus's Errors	286	(3)
Peter of Mladonovice: The Examination and Execution of Hus	289	(8)
John of Brevicoxa: On the Church and Heresy	297	(12)
Sources and Acknowledgments	309