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Book SynopsisFresh investigations into heresy after 1300, demonstrating its continuing importance and influence. From the Gregorian reforms to the Protestant Reformation, heresies and heretics helped shape the religious, political, and institutional structures of medieval Europe. Within this larger history of religious ferment, the late medieval period presents a particularly dynamic array of heterodox movements, dissident modes of thought, and ecclesiastical responses. Yet recent debates about the nature of heresy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have too easily created an impression of the period after 1300 as merely an epilogue to the high medieval story. This volume takes the history of heresy in late medieval Europe (1300-1500) on its own terms. From Paris to Prague and fromnorthern Germany to Italy and even extending as far as Ethiopia, the essays shed new light on a vibrant world of audacious beguines, ardent Joachites, Spiritual Franciscans, innovative mystics, lay prophets, idiosyncratic alchemists, daring magicians, and even rebellious princes locked in battles with the papacy. As befits a collection honoring the pioneering career of Robert E. Lerner, the studies collected here combine close readings of manuscripts andother sources with a grounding in their political, religious and intellectual contexts, to offer fresh insights into heresies and heretics in late medieval Europe. MICHAEL D. BAILEY is Professor of History at Iowa State University; SEAN L. FIELD is Professor of History at the University of Vermont. Contributors: Louisa A. Burnham, Elizabeth Casteen, Jörg Feuchter, Samantha Kelly, Richard Kieckhefer, Deeana Copeland Klepper, FrancesKneupper, Georg Modestin, Barbara Newman, Sylvain Piron, Justine L. Trombley.
Trade ReviewA welcome collection..The standard of scholarship throughout the volume is uniformly high. * THE RICARDIAN *
[Those] who are interested in late medieval religion will surely find this essay collection valuable not only for the individual essays but also for the larger picture it presents of late medieval religious dissent. * Sixteenth Century Journal *
The volume forces us to continue to ask the most basic questions: Who or what, after all, was a heretic in the later Middle Ages? These essays reveal the "staggering variety" (248) that emerges as we continue to try to answer that question. They thus stand alone, in their own right, as a significant contribution to our ongoing efforts to rethink the later Middle Ages as an era of manifold religious options. As such, they seem a most fitting honor for the scholar [Robert Lerner] who has done so much over so many years to help us see that complexity anew. * Archa Verbi *
Table of ContentsRobert E. Lerner: A Portrait - Richard Kieckhefer Historiography, Methodology, and Manuscripts: Robert E. Lerner and the Study of Late Medieval Heresy - Michael D. Bailey Historiography, Methodology, and Manuscripts: Robert E. Lerner and the Study of Late Medieval Heresy - Sean L. Field The Heresy of the Templars and the Dream of a French Inquisition - Sean L. Field The Dissemination of Barthélemy Sicard's Postilla super Danielem - Sylvain Piron Magic, Mysticism, and Heresy in the Early Fourteenth Century - Michael D. Bailey The Making of a Heretic: Pope John XXII's Campaign against Louis of Bavaria - Georg Modestin Unusual Choices: The Unique Heresy of Limoux Negre - Louisa Burnham Princely Poverty: Louis of Durazzo, Dynastic Politics, and Heresy in Fourteenth-Century Naples - Elizabeth Casteen Disentangling Heretics, Jews, and Muslims: Imagining Infidels in Late Medieval Pastoral Manuals - Deeana Copeland Klepper New Frontiers in the Late Medieval Reception of a Heretical Text:The Implications of Two New Latin Copies of Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls - Justine Trombley Disputing Prophetic Thought: The 1466 Questio quodlibetalis of Johannes of Dorsten - Frances Kneupper Heretics, Allies, Exemplary Christians: Latin Views of Ethiopian Orthodox in the Late Middle Ages - Samantha Kelly 'By them in reality I meant the Jews': Late Medieval Heretics in the Work and Life of Renate Riemeck (1920-2003) - Jorg Feuchter Who or What Was a Heretic in the Late Middle Ages? - Barbara Newman Robert E. Lerner: A Chronological Bibliography Index
