Heresy And The Making Of European Culture

Author : Andrew P. Roach,James R. Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317122500

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Heresy and the Making of European Culture by Andrew P. Roach,James R. Simpson Pdf

Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The papers collected here - reflecting the disciplines of history, literature, theology, philosophy, economics and law - examine the intellectual and social investments characteristic of both deliberate religious dissent such as the Cathars of Languedoc, the Balkan Bogomils, the Hussites of Bohemia and those who knowingly or unknowingly bent or broke the rules, creating their own 'unofficial orthodoxies'. Attempts to understand, police and eradicate all these, through methods such as the Inquisition, required no less ingenuity. The ambivalent dynamic evident in the tensions between coercion and dissent is still recognisable and productive in the world today.

Author : John Christian Laursen,R.H. Popkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789401007443

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Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture Volume IV by John Christian Laursen,R.H. Popkin Pdf

This is the first book to bring together studies of a wide variety of millenarians who were active in the 17th and 18th centuries in France, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and eastern Europe. It provides much food for thought for students and teachers of early modern ideas, the history of philosophy and religion, and the making of the modern world. It opens up many avenues for further work.

Author : Matt Goldish,R.H. Popkin,John Christian Laursen,James E. Force
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0792368479

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Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture Volume IV by Matt Goldish,R.H. Popkin,John Christian Laursen,James E. Force Pdf

This is the first book to bring together studies of a wide variety of millenarians who were active in the 17th and 18th centuries in France, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and eastern Europe. It provides much food for thought for students and teachers of early modern ideas, the history of philosophy and religion, and the making of the modern world. It opens up many avenues for further work.

Author : John Christian Laursen,Cary J. Nederman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317122463

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Heresy in Transition by John Christian Laursen,Cary J. Nederman Pdf

The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European culture. The palpable increase in incidences of heresy in the Middle Ages may be said to directly relate to the Christianity's attempts to define orthodoxy and establish conformity at its centre, resulting in the sometimes forceful elimination of Christian sects. In the transition from medieval to early modern times, however, the perception of heresy underwent a profound transformation, ultimately leading to its decriminalization and the emergence of a pluralistic religious outlook. The essays in this volume offer readers a unique insight into this little-understood cultural shift. Half of the chapters investigate the manner in which the church and its attendant civil authorities defined and proscribed heresy, whilst the other half focus on the means by which early modern writers sought to supersede such definition and proscription. The result of these investigations is a multifaceted historical account of the construction and serial reconstruction of one of the key categories of European theological, juristic and political thought. The contributors explore the role of nationalism and linguistic identity in constructions of heresy, its analogies with treason and madness, the role of class and status in the responses to heresy. In doing so they provide fascinating insights into the roots of the historicization of heresy and the role of this historicization in the emergence of religious pluralism.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138838934

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The Devil's World by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : Matt Goldish,R.H. Popkin,J.E. Force
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0792368487

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Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture by Matt Goldish,R.H. Popkin,J.E. Force Pdf

The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. The cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the `long' 18th century when, so the `official' story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England effectively tarred such religious radicalism as `enthusiasm' has been less well examined. This volume endeavors to revise this `official' story and to trace the influence of millenarian ideas in the science, politics, and everyday life of England and America in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813209142

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Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson) by Christopher Dawson Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of Dawson's thinking on questions that remain of contemporary importance

Author : John Christian Laursen,Cary J. Nederman,Ian Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0754654281

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Heresy in Transition by John Christian Laursen,Cary J. Nederman,Ian Hunter Pdf

The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European culture. The palpable increase in incidences of heresy in the Middle Ages may be said to directly relate to the Christianity's attempts to define orthodoxy and establish conformity at its centre, resulting in the sometimes forceful elimination of Christian sects. In the transition from medieval to early modern times, however, the perception of heresy underwent a profound transformation, ultimately leading to its decriminalization and the emergence of a pluralistic religious outlook. The essays in this volume offer readers a unique insight into this little-understood cultural shift. Half of the chapters investigate the manner in which the church and its attendant civil authorities defined and proscribed heresy, whilst the other half focus on the means by which early modern writers sought to supersede such definition and proscription. The result of these investigations is a multifaceted historical account of the construction and serial reconstruction of one of the key categories of European theological, juristic and political thought. The contributors explore the role of nationalism and linguistic identity in constructions of heresy, its analogies with treason and madness, the role of class and status in the responses to heresy. In doing so they provide fascinating insights into the roots of the historicization of heresy and the role of this historicization in the emergence of religious pluralism.

Author : Ronald K. Delph,Michelle M. Fontaine,John Jeffries Martin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271090795

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Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy by Ronald K. Delph,Michelle M. Fontaine,John Jeffries Martin Pdf

Leading scholars from Italy and the United States offer a fresh and nuanced image of the religious reform movements on the Italian peninsula in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. United in their conviction that religious ideas can only be fully understood in relation to the particular social, cultural, and political contexts in which they develop, these scholars explore a wide range of protagonists from popes, bishops, and inquisitors to humanists and merchants, to artists, jewelers, and nuns. What emerges is a story of negotiations, mediations, compromises, and of shifting boundaries between heresy and orthodoxy. This book is essential reading for all students of the history of Christianity in early modern Europe.

Author : Gary K Waite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230629127

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Heresy, Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Gary K Waite Pdf

In the fifteenth century many authorities did not believe Inquisitors' stories of a supposed Satanic witch sect. However, the religious conflict of the sixteenth-century Reformation - especially popular movements of reform and revolt - helped to create an atmosphere in which diabolical conspiracies (which swept up religious dissidents, Jews and magicians into their nets) were believed to pose a very real threat. Fear of the Devil and his followers inspired horrific incidents of judicially-approved terror in early modern Europe, leading after 1560 to the infamous witch hunts. Bringing together the fields of Reformation and witchcraft studies, this fascinating book reveals how the early modern period's religious conflicts led to widespread confusion and uncertainty. Gary K. Waite examines in-depth how church leaders dispelled rising religious doubt by persecuting heretics, and how alleged infernal plots, and witches who confessed to making a pact with the Devil, helped the authorities to reaffirm orthodoxy. Waite argues that it was only when the authorities came to terms with pluralism that there was a corresponding decline in witch panics.

Author : Michael D. Barbezat
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501716829

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Burning Bodies by Michael D. Barbezat Pdf

Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics. Michael Barbezat traces these instances from the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century, depicting the exclusionary fires of hell and judicial execution, the purifying fire of post-mortem purgation, and the unifying fire of God's love that medieval authors used to describe processes of social inclusion and exclusion. Burning Bodies analyses how the accounts of burning heretics alive referenced, affirmed, and elaborated upon wider discourses of community and eschatology. Descriptions of burning supposed heretics alive were profoundly related to ideas of a redemptive Christian community based upon a divine, unifying love, and medieval understandings of what these burnings could have meant to contemporaries cannot be fully appreciated outside of this discourse of communal love. For them, human communities were bodies on fire. Medieval theologians and academics often described the corporate identity of the Christian world as a body joined together by the love of God. This love was like a fire, melting individuals together into one whole. Those who did not spiritually burn with God's love were destined to burn literally in the fires of Hell or Purgatory, and the fires of execution were often described as an earthly extension of these fires. Through this analysis, Barbezat demonstrates how presentations of heresy, and to some extent actual responses to perceived heretics, were shaped by long-standing images of biblical commentary and exegesis. He finds that this imagery is more than a literary curiosity; it is, in fact, a formative historical agent.

Author : Tímea Drinóczi,Agnieszka Bień-Kacała
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000172430

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Rule of Law, Common Values, and Illiberal Constitutionalism by Tímea Drinóczi,Agnieszka Bień-Kacała Pdf

This book challenges the idea that the Rule of Law is still a universal European value given its relatively rapid deterioration in Hungary and Poland, and the apparent inability of the European institutions to adequately address the illiberalization of these Member States. The book begins from the general presumption that the Rule of Law, since its emergence, has been a universal European value, a political ideal and legal conception. It also acknowledges that the EU has been struggling in the area of value enforcement, even if the necessary mechanisms are available and, given an innovative outlook and more political commitment, could be successfully used. The authors appreciate the different approaches toward the Rule of Law, both as a concept and as a measurable indicator, and while addressing the core question of the volume, widely rely on them. Ultimately, the book provides a snapshot of how the Rule of Law ideal has been dismantled and offers a theory of the Rule of Law in illiberal constitutionalism. It discusses why voters keep illiberal populist leaders in power when they are undeniably acting contrary to the Rule of Law ideal. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers engaged with the foundational questions of constitutionalism. The structure and nature of the subject matter covered ensure that the book will be a useful addition for comparative and national constitutional law classes. It will also appeal to legal practitioners wondering about the boundaries of the Rule of Law.

Author : Jonathan C. P. Birch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137512765

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Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment by Jonathan C. P. Birch Pdf

This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age through interpretations of Jesus between c.1650 and c.1826. The book demonstrates the persistence of theology in modern philosophy and the projects of social reform and amelioration associated with the Enlightenment. At the core of many of these projects was a robust moral-theological realism, sometimes manifest in a natural law ethic, but always associated with Jesus and a commitment to the sovereign goodness of God. This ethical orientation in Enlightenment discourse is found in a range of different metaphysical and political identities (dualist and monist; progressive and radical) which intersect with earlier ‘heretical’ tendencies in Christian thought (Arianism, Pelagianism, and Marcionism). This intellectual matrix helped to produce the discourses of irenic toleration which are a legacy of the Enlightenment at its best.

Author : John Christian Laursen,R. H. Popkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401007454

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Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture by John Christian Laursen,R. H. Popkin Pdf

Author : Andrea Janelle Dickens
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506498218

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Heresy in the Middle Ages by Andrea Janelle Dickens Pdf

Medieval Christianity evolved economic, intellectual, and theological structures to consolidate authority and test orthodoxy. This book investigates the relationships between the medieval church and the growing number of heretical groups, highlighting where they were motivated by overlapping concerns such as a zeal to live the apostolic life.