Description
Book SynopsisThis history of the great heretical movements of the middle ages provides an account of the dissent and protests made against the Medieval churches of Rome and Byzantium. It examines the origins and nature of these heresies, and how medieval churchmen grappled with deviation.
Table of ContentsPart I: The Beginnings. 1. The Problem with Heresy.
2. The Revival of Heresy in the West: The Eleventh Century.
Part II: The Twelfth Century.
3. Orthodox Reform and Heresy.
4. Heretical Preachers and the Rise of Catharism.
5. The Waldensians and the Deepening Crisis.
Part III: Heresy and the Church.
6. The Counter-Attack: Innocent III to Innocent IV.
7. The Cathars.
8. The Waldensians After the Conference of Bergamo.
9. Tension and Insecurity: Gregory X to John XXII.
10. Inquisition and Abuse.
11. Spiritual Franciscans and Heretical Joachimites.
Part IV: Evangelical Heresy in the Late Middle Ages.
12. Church and Society: Benedict XII to Eugenius IV.
13. John Wycliff.
14. The English Lollards.
15. The Bohemian Reform Movement.
16. Politics and Hussitism, 1409-1419.
17. Success and Failure: From the Defenestration to the Agreement at Jihlava.
18. The Unitas Fratum and the Development of Confessions.
19. Medieval Heresy and the Reformation.
20. Heresy and Reform.
