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The University of Chicago Press Slandering the Sacred Blasphemy Law and Religious
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Slandering the Sacred offers a gripping voyeuristic account of the sinuous ways in which law’s religion and religion’s law together conspired in the racist and sentimental effort to regulate speech and affect in colonial India, particularly in the strange career of Thomas Macaulay.” -- Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Indiana University“By rerouting the modern history of blasphemy through late colonial India, this elegant and imaginative book returns empire to the history of secularism as it centers India in the reconception of blasphemy as a secular crime. This richly textured history with many twists and turns is a must-read that cuts through the logjam of contemporary debates about religion and free speech.” -- Mrinalini Sinha, University of Michigan“In this discerning study, Scott recasts South Asia as a major crucible of key ideas about blasphemy that crystallized under British colonial rule. By linking blasphemy laws with secularization in the metropole and colony, he astutely shows that religious offense often obscured the residual violence in state and society. As Scott skillfully argues, law’s putative management of public feelings provided an alibi for solidifying colonialism’s grip on civil society, spilling over into the postcolonial state’s mediation of religious differences.” -- Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University“Scott has written a book as witty as it is scholarly. Slandering the Sacred is an enthralling and colorful history of a law, a page-turner about a penal code: this is an impressive feat.". -- Katherine Lemons, McGill UniversityTable of Contents1 Introduction: Secularizing Blasphemy Part One: The Merry Prophet 2 A Crisis of the Public: The Rajpal Affair and Its Bodies 3 Secularism, High and Low: Making the Blasphemy Bill Part Two: Blasphemy’s Empire 4 Codifying Blasphemy: Religious Feelings between Colony and Metropole 5 Macaulay Unmanned, or, Tom Governs His Feelings 6 Libeling Religion: Secularism and the Intimacy of Insult Part Three: Polemics as Ethics 7 Printing Pain, Ruling Sentiment: A Brief History of Arya Insult 8 The Arya Penal Code: Law and the Practice of Documentary Religion 9 The Swami and the Prophet: Slandering Lives, Conducting Character 10 Conclusion: A Feeling for “Religion” Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Theology Rhetoric and Politics in the Eucharistic
Book SynopsisIn the 11th-century Eucharistic Controversy, Alberic of Monte composed a small but important treatise. His treatise was said to have destroyed the argument that the bread and wine survived its consecration. Modern scholars had long believed his treatise to be lost. This book demonstrates that this crucial document is an existing identifiable text.Trade ReviewThis is a very clever book, an exciting detective story based on acute paleographic and political analysis. -- Mary Stroll American Historical Review This book is a valuable contribution to an understanding of the controversy over the Eucharist that swirled around Berengar, thescholasticus of Tours, in the eleventh century... an excellent example of the virtues of collaborative scholarship. -- Gary Macy Catholic Historical Review The handsome volume will help to make an immensely important moment in European culture accessible and comprehensible for students and scholars alike. -- Miri Rubin Ecclesiastical History Will be of interest to all students of the intellectual and ecclesiastical history of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. -- William North SpeculumTable of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations 1. Berengar of Tours and the Eucharistic Controversy Introduction The Carolingian Background and the Eleventh-Century Debate Berengar's Theology of the Eucharist Berengar's Early Critics The Early Councils The Aftermath of the Council of 1059: Lanfranc and Guitmund The Movement Toward Rome 2. Alberdeen Libellus Against Berengar of Tours The Manuscript The Rubric and Morin's Attribution to Berengar of Venosa The Treatise and It's Author Alberic of Monte Cassino and His "Lost" Treatise 3. Style and Content of the Libellus Alberic's Literary Work The Literary Style of the Aberdeen Libellus The Content of the Libellus Conclusion 4. Berengar of Tours and the Roman Councils of 1078 and 1079 The Sources The Council of All Saints, 1078 Alberic and Berengar Berengar and Alberic at the Lenten Council, 1079 Brief Epilogue: Berengar Remembers Conclusion The Text and Translation of the Libellus Appendix: The Dossier of Unconnected Sententiae Following the Libellus in the Aberdeen Manuscript Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Theology Rhetoric and Politics in the Eucharistic
Book SynopsisIn the 11th-century Eucharistic Controversy, Alberic of Monte composed a small but important treatise. His treatise was said to have destroyed the argument that the bread and wine survived its consecration. Modern scholars had long believed his treatise to be lost. This book demonstrates that this crucial document is an existing identifiable text.Trade ReviewThis is a very clever book, an exciting detective story based on acute paleographic and political analysis. -- Mary Stroll American Historical Review This book is a valuable contribution to an understanding of the controversy over the Eucharist that swirled around Berengar, thescholasticus of Tours, in the eleventh century... an excellent example of the virtues of collaborative scholarship. -- Gary Macy Catholic Historical Review The handsome volume will help to make an immensely important moment in European culture accessible and comprehensible for students and scholars alike. -- Miri Rubin Ecclesiastical History Will be of interest to all students of the intellectual and ecclesiastical history of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. -- William North SpeculumTable of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations 1. Berengar of Tours and the Eucharistic Controversy Introduction The Carolingian Background and the Eleventh-Century Debate Berengar's Theology of the Eucharist Berengar's Early Critics The Early Councils The Aftermath of the Council of 1059: Lanfranc and Guitmund The Movement Toward Rome 2. Alberdeen Libellus Against Berengar of Tours The Manuscript The Rubric and Morin's Attribution to Berengar of Venosa The Treatise and It's Author Alberic of Monte Cassino and His "Lost" Treatise 3. Style and Content of the Libellus Alberic's Literary Work The Literary Style of the Aberdeen Libellus The Content of the Libellus Conclusion 4. Berengar of Tours and the Roman Councils of 1078 and 1079 The Sources The Council of All Saints, 1078 Alberic and Berengar Berengar and Alberic at the Lenten Council, 1079 Brief Epilogue: Berengar Remembers Conclusion The Text and Translation of the Libellus Appendix: The Dossier of Unconnected Sententiae Following the Libellus in the Aberdeen Manuscript Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Classifying Christians Ethnography Heresiology
Book SynopsisInvestigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms.Trade Review"Berzon's book offers a potent epistemological reflection on the production, organization, and limits of knowledge in late antiquity... a finely articulated meditation on the effects of theological and ethnographic ancient list-making." Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Classifying Christians is a remarkable book... indispensable." Reading ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Writing People, Writing Religion 1. Heresiology as Ethnography: The Ethnographic Disposition 2. Comparing Theologies and Comparing Peoples: The Customs, Doctrines, and Dispositions of the Heretics 3. Contesting Ethnography: Heretical Models of Human and Cosmic Plurality 4. Christianized Ethnography: Paradigms of Heresiological Knowledge 5. Knowledge Fair and Foul: The Rhetoric of Heresiological Inquiry 6. The Infinity of Continuity: Epiphanius of Salamis and the Limits of the Ethnographic Disposition 7. From Ethnography to List: Transcribing and Traversing Heresy Epilogue: The Legacy of Heresiology Bibliography Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris
Book SynopsisThe book documents thirty cases in which university-trained scholars were condemned for disseminating allegedly erroneous opinions in their teaching or writing.Trade Review"The book makes an important scholarly contribution. Thijssen puts academic censures in the context of ecclesiastical investigations of heresy and brings together the latest research on a number of specific Parisian cases and on the problem of academic censure." * W. J. Courtenay, University of Wisconsin, Madison *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Suppression of False Teaching 2. The Condemnation of March 7, 1277 3. False Teaching at the Arts Faculty: The Ockhamist Statute of 1340 and Its Prelude 4. Nicholas of Autrecourt and John of Mirecourt: Censure at the Faculty of Theology in the Fourteenth Century 5. Academic Freedom and Teaching Authority Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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The University of Alabama Press Dixie Heretic
Book SynopsisA life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy (1900-1985).Trade Review“Renwick Kennedy was a significant intellectual of Depression-era and postwar Alabama, and the author makes clear his relevance for a variety of issues in the South and the nation. Kennedy’s name has long been associated with the Black Belt, and he shows up in most studies of the region. No one before has given the sustained and smart attention as the author here has done.” —Charles Reagan Wilson author of Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause and Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis
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Liverpool University Press The Earliest Advocates of the English Bible The
Book SynopsisOne of the major debates in English cultural, literary and religious history concerned whether or not the Bible should be translated into English.Trade ReviewThis is an important body of texts that needs to be available in a convenient modern format. These materials are of fundamental significance for the English debate about translation of religious materials into the vernacular in the early fifteenth century. Vincent GillespieFor almost all these texts, Dove represents the first complete, published critical edition; moreover, the edition is exceptionally easy to use, with text, glosses and biblical references, and apparatus appearing side-by-side on each page. J. Patrick Hornbeck, Ecclesiastical History, Volume 63/3 * Ecclesiastical History, Volume 63/3 *The texts are admirably edited. ... in the clarity of its presentation and a generous use of space, this is a most user-friendly volume (on the same lines as Exeter’s excellent The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory 1280-1520, published in 1999). It is one of the most useful I have come across for some time—the sort that prompts the question, why has this not been done before? It should become an essential sourcebook for future work on the Bible in English in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and is a fitting tribute to a fine scholar, who died with so much more still to give. Richard Marsden, The Medieval Review, 12.05.15 * The Medieval Review, 12.05.15 *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: • discusses the context and significance of the debate about the English Bible • outlines the contents, authorship, date and manuscript tradition of the texts in this edition • considers the extent to which the texts may be seen as Wycliffite, and the interplay of orthodoxy and non-orthodoxy in the Bible debate and in pre-1409 England. TEXTS: 1. The Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible 2. The Prologue to Isaiah and the Prophets 3. Twelve tracts advocating translation in Cambridge University Library Ii. 6. 26 4. First seiþ Bois 5. The holi prophete Dauid 6. Glossed Gospel prologues and epilogues 7. ‘In þe bigynnyng of Holi Chirche’ 8. Pater Noster II The texts are an accurate representation of the base manuscript, with modern punctuation. Significant variants are recorded in the apparatus. The commentary focuses on elucidating context and meaning; textual and linguistic questions will be addressed where they affect meaning. Where the literal meaning may not immediately be clear to a reader moderately familiar with Middle English, translational glosses is provided alongside the text. There is also a short glossary and an index of biblical quotations and of non-biblical sources.
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York Medieval Press Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700
Book SynopsisEssays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition. The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control information and to produce authoritative discourses from it - a fact not lost on contemporaries, or on later commentators. Understanding that relationship between inquisition and knowledge has been one of the principal drivers of its long historiography. Inquisitors and their historians have always been preoccupied with the process by which information was gathered and recirculated as knowledge. The tenor of that question has changed over time, but we are still asking how knowledge was made and handed down - to them and to us - and how their sense of what was interesting or useful affected their selection. This volume approaches the theme by looking at heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages, and also at how they were seen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The contributors consider a wide range of medieval texts, including papal bulls, sermons, polemical treatises and records of interrogations, both increasing our knowledge of medieval heresy and inquisition, and at the same time delineating the twisting of knowledge. This polarity continues in the early modern period, when scholars appeared to advance learning by hunting for medieval manuscripts and publishing them, or ensuring their preservation through copying them; but at the same time, as some of the chapters here show, these were proof texts in the service of Catholic or Protestant polemic. As a whole, the collection provides a clear view of - and invites readers' reflection on - the shading of truth and untruth in medieval and early modern "knowledge" of heresy and inquisition. Contributors: Jessalynn Lea Bird, Harald Bollbuck, Irene Bueno, Jörg Feuchter, Richard Kieckhefer, Pawel Kras, Adam Poznanski, Luc Racaut, Alessandro Sala, Shelagh Sneddon, Michaela Valente, Reima VälimäkiTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Peter Biller and L. J. Sackville Part I: Medieval 1. Inquisitorial identity and authority in thirteenth-century exegesis and sermons; Jean Halgrin d'Abbeville, Jacques de Vitry and Humbert of Romans Jessalynn Lea Bird 2. Shaping the image of the heretics: The narratio in Gregory IX's letters Alessandro Sala 3. Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accused Jörg Feuchter 4. The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit: the 1332 enquiry into the 'Cowled Nuns' of Swidnica Pawel Kras 5. Late medieval heresiography and the categorisation of Eastern Christianity Irene Bueno 6. The portrayal of the Waldensian Brethren in the De vita et conversacione (c. 1391-3) Appendix: De vita et conversacione: edition and translation of the Weimar Ms Reima Välimäki 7. Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts: the case of Petrus Zwicker's Cum dormirent homines Adam Poznanski 8. Constructing narratives of witchcraft Richard Kieckhefer Part II: Early Modern 9. 'Ut ex vetustis membranis cognosco': Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manuals Harald Bollbuck 10. The 'Cathars as Protestant' myth and the formation of heterodox identity in the French Wars of Religion Luc Racaut 11. The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records in Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Doat Mss 21-26 Shelagh Sneddon 12. History in the Dominican Convent in Toulouse in 1666 and 1668: Antonin Réginald and Jean de Doat Appendix: Antonin Réginald, Chronicon inquisitorum, edition and translation of excerpts, 1240-1340 Peter Biller 13. The Roman Inquisition: between reality and myth Michaela Valente
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York Medieval Press The Beguines of Medieval Świdnica: The
Book SynopsisDocuments recording the interrogation of sixteen women and the nature of their unusual spiritual practices, now available in a full edition and, for the first time, a full English translation. In September 1332, in the town of Świdnica, an important economic and communication centre of what was then Silesia, a group of sixteen women stood before the Dominican inquisitor, John of Schwenkenfeld, to testify about the local community of beguines, who called themselves the Hooded Sisters or the Daughters of Odelindis. We are fortunate that the original records of this heresy interrogation have survived, preserved as a notarial instrument drawn up shortly afterwards, eventually transferred to the Papal Curia, and now kept in the Vatican Library. The documents provide unique insights into the everyday life and spirituality of this group of lay women, as they attempted to adopt the ideals of vita apostolica. They lived in the strict poverty they thought necessary for spiritual perfection, and took part in austere ascetic practices, including regular flagellation and a strict diet regime, aiming to mortify sinful flesh and help them achieve mystical union with God. Using this evidence, the authors of this book piece together a sense of who these interrogated beguines were and the nature of their spiritual practices. Were they pious illiterates, or self-trained theologians, keenly interested in debates around the doctrine of such intellectuals as Master Eckhart, John Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas? The book also addresses the nature of their interrogation and the conduct of Friar John of Schwenkenfeld. And it contains a full edition and, for the first time, a full English translation of the documents themselves.Table of ContentsForeword by Robert E. Lerner Part One: Historical Studies Preface 1. The Rise of the Beguines 2. The Council of Vienne and the Persecution of Beguines 3. John of Schwenkenfeld O.P. and the Interrogations of Świdnica Beguines 4. The Daughters of Odelindis: Identity and Religious Practice 5. A Dominican Inquisitor and Theological Controversies of His Times 6. Conclusions Part Two: Latin Edition and English Translation of the 1332 Protocol Description of the Manuscripts Criticial Study Editorial Principles Examinatio testium in causa Capuciatarum monialium in Swydnicz Examination of Witnesses in the Case of the Hooded Sisters at Świdnica The Swesteren of Odelind of Piritz and Cologne and their European Context Letha Böhringer Bibliography Index
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HardPress Publishing The Doctrine of the Trinity a Doctrine Not of Divine Origin
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Oxford University Press Power Purity Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy
Book SynopsisCatharism was a popular medieval heresy based on the belief that the creation of humankind was a disaster in which angelic spirits were trapped in matter by the devil. Their only goal was to escape the body through purification. Cathars denied any value to material life, including the human body, baptism, and the Eucharist, even marriage and childbirth. What could explain the long popularity of such a bleak faith in the towns of southern France and Italy? Power and Purity explores the place of cathar heresy in the life of the medieval Italian town of Orvieto. Based on extensive archival research, it details the social makeup of the Cathar community and argues that the heresy was central to the social and political changes of the 13th century. The late 13th-century repression of Catharism by a local inquisition was part of a larger redefinition of civic and ecclesiastical authority. Author Carol Lansing shows that the faith attracted not an alienated older nobility but artisans, merchants, popular political leaders, and indeed circles of women in Orvieto as well as Florence and Bologna. Cathar beliefs were not so much a pessimistic anomaly as a part of a larger climate of religious doubt. The teachings on the body and the practice of Cathar holy persons addressed questions of sexual difference and the structure of authority that were key elements of medieval Italian life. The pure lives of the Cathar holy people, both male and female, demonstrated a human capacity for self-restraint that served as a powerful social model in towns torn by violent conflict. This study addresses current debates about the rise of persecution, and argues for a climate of popular toleration. Power and Purity will appeal to historians of society and politics as well as religion and gender studies.Trade Review"Carol Lansing's book is a fine example of a local study that transcends its original scope by stimulating further reflection on the nature and function of heresy, and by implication on that of religion....A particular mention deserves Lansing's skilful reading of religious and political symbolism, which unveils the probable implications of a piece of rotten meat thrown at a procession a long time ago."--Sixteenth Century Journal"The book makes valuable contributions to our understanding of the social context of Catharism in Orvieto and also the place of Catharism in the popular religiosity of the High Middle Ages...A worty contribution to scholarship on Catharism and medieval Italy." --Catholic Historical Review"Lansing is judicious in describing what the records she analyzed do or do not contain....Lansing's book is highly recommended. It is beautifully written and carefully researched."--The Medieval Review"Lucid writing and scrupulous documentation....the book is a persuasive reminder that understanding religious phenomena requires solid contextualization. Historians, social scientists, and scholars of religion will benefit from this splendid book."--Theological Studies"This is an interesting and important book...This is a model study of how communities work."--Religious Studies Review
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Cambridge University Press Montanism
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Cambridge University Press The Waldensian Dissent
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Cambridge University Press Heresy and Literacy 10001530 23 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 23
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Cambridge University Press Medieval Heresies Christianity Judaism and Islam Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
Book SynopsisThis advanced undergraduate textbook is the first comparative survey of heresy and its response throughout the medieval world. Spanning England to Persia, it examines heresy, error, and religious dissent - and efforts to end them through correction, persuasion, or punishment - among Latin Christians, Greek Christians, Jews, and Muslims.Trade Review'By showing that heresy can be treated within a single framework which embraces Christianity, Judaism and Islam, Caldwell Ames has in effect redefined the subject, and made an important contribution to comparative world history. In doing so she sustains a high level of learning and intellectual power and originality over a range almost as remarkable chronologically - from patristic times until the early modern period - as culturally.' R. I. Moore, Newcastle University'Christine Caldwell Ames has written the most original and readable account of the emergence of unacceptable difference in religious belief and practice in the Abrahamic religions in the pre-modern period. She first describes the foundational differences among diaspora Judaism, Greek and Latin Christianity, and Islam between the fourth and eighth centuries. She then treats the establishment of an authoritative orthodoxy in each and the stresses within each that created different kinds of heterodoxies and different kinds of censures. Her conclusion points to several enduring consequences of these in all three religions down to the present.' Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania'Nothing comparable to the extant literature on Christian heresy exists for the Islamic world, while the terminological controversy - can we speak of 'orthodoxy' in Islam? - adds to the imbalance. With its comparative perspective to the three Abrahamic religions through history and its nuanced discussion of how 'heresy' is constructed and by whom, Caldwell Ames's book is a much welcome contribution that helps promote a better understanding of the Islamic case and provides stimuli for further research.' Maribel Fierro, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas'Christine Caldwell Ames not only provides us with a comprehensive study of heresy, or heresies, in medieval European and Near Eastern lands, but also puts forward a convincing thesis about the interplay between religious thought and social dynamics that cuts across confessional traditions.' Uriel Simonsohn, Speculum'Undoubtedly, this is a very useful, erudite and needed book vividly showing the entangled history of religious dissent in these historical monotheisms … Her book can be thus used in a variety of ways, ranging from pure academic interest and research to teaching and other educational purposes, especially in current times, in which the continuing relevance of these monotheistic religions and their perceptions of 'right' and 'wrong' (or 'orthodoxy' and 'heresy', if you like) in various constellations becomes more than evident and at times makes the headlines worldwide.' Vasilios N. Makrides, Entangled ReligionsTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'My community will be divided': heresy in the medieval world; 1. Peoples of the book (380–661); 2. Triumphs of orthodoxy (661–1031); 3. The perfect hatred (1031–1209); 4. Cinders and ashes (1209–1328); 5. Purity and peoples (1328–1510); Epilogue; For further reading; Glossary; Index.
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