The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages

by Lerner, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780268010942
• ISBN10: 0268010943
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Heresy and Fornication	p. 10
Three Racy Stories	p. 10
The Heresy in the Swabian Ries	p. 13
Heresy and Fornication: a Topos of the Thirteenth Century	p. 20
Adamites and Luciferans in the Fourteenth Century	p. 25
Beghards and Beguines	p. 35
Origins and Sources of Hostility	p. 36
The Heresy of Lay Piety	p. 44
Conrad of Megenberg and John Wasmod of Homburg	p. 55
The Condemnation	p. 61
The Thirteenth Century	p. 61
The German Decrees	p. 65
Marguerite Porete	p. 68
The Council of Vienne	p. 78
The Inquisition in Strassburg	p. 85
The Campaign of John of Zurich	p. 85
The Second Wave of Persecutions	p. 96
The Case of John Malkaw	p. 101
The Third Wave of Persecutions	p. 103
The Inquisition in the East	p. 106
John and Albert of Brunn	p. 106
The Beguines of Schweidnitz	p. 112
The Hussite Problem	p. 119
The Inquisition in the West	p. 125
Hermann Kuchener and Constantine of Erfurt	p. 125
The Revival of the Papal Inquisition	p. 131
The Campaign of Walter Kerlinger: John Hartmann and the Beguines of Thuringia	p. 134
Conrad Kannler	p. 141
The Campaigns of Martin of Prague, Peter Zwicker, and Eylard Schoenveld	p. 145
Nicholas of Basel and the Campaign of John Mulberg	p. 151
The "Men of Intelligence"	p. 157
The Fifteenth Century	p. 164
The Polemics of Gerson	p. 164
The Era of the Council of Basel	p. 168
Hans Becker	p. 177
The Predicament of the Mystics	p. 182
Meister Eckhart	p. 182
Eckhart's Orthodox Followers	p. 186
Ruysbroeck	p. 190
Groote and the Brethren of the Common Life	p. 195
The Literature of the Free Spirit	p. 200
The Mirror of Simple Souls	p. 200
The Pseudo-Eckhart Literature	p. 208
De onbekende leek and Schwester Katrei	p. 213
The Rhineland libelli and The Book of Spiritual Poverty	p. 221
Conclusions	p. 225
The Place of the Heresy of the Free Spirit in Social and Cultural History	p. 228
Who were the Free Spirits?	p. 229
Motivation	p. 233
"The Pursuit of the Millennium" or "Beyond Good and Evil"?	p. 236
The Lay Spirit and the Dignity of Man	p. 241
Ultimate Failure	p. 242
List of Manuscripts	p. 244
Index	p. 247
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