Burning bodies: community, eschatology, and the punishment of heresy in the Middle Ages

Introduction : burning bodies and medieval human communal identity -- Our God is like a consuming fire : burning bodies and Christian community -- Fields and bodies : toleration and threat in a shared space -- The beginning at Orleans in 1022 : heretics and hellfire -- Likeness in difference : three...

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Main Author: Barbezat, Michael David (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Ithaca London Cornell University Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Heresy / History 1050-1300
B Europe / Heretic / Persecution / Auto-da-fe / History 1050-1300
B Albigensians / Persecution / History
Further subjects:B Fire Religious aspects Christianity
B Human Body Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Flesh (Theology) History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Europe Church history 600-1500 Europe
B Europe Church history 600-1500
B Flesh (Theology) History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Christian heretics History Europe
B Christian heretics (Europe) History
B Christian heretics
B Human Body Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
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Summary:Introduction : burning bodies and medieval human communal identity -- Our God is like a consuming fire : burning bodies and Christian community -- Fields and bodies : toleration and threat in a shared space -- The beginning at Orleans in 1022 : heretics and hellfire -- Likeness in difference : three burnings in the twelfth-century Rhineland -- Like rejoices in like : recognition and differentiation in descriptions of heresy -- Heresy, sex, and reading in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries -- Leaping from the flames : love, redemption, and holy war in the Albigensian Crusade -- Conclusion : the uses of exclusion and fear for a community of love
Introduction : burning bodies and medieval human communal identity -- Our God is like a consuming fire : burning bodies and Christian community -- Fields and bodies : toleration and threat in a shared space -- The beginning at Orleans in 1022 : heretics and hellfire -- Likeness in difference : three burnings in the twelfth-century Rhineland -- Like rejoices in like : recognition and differentiation in descriptions of heresy -- Heresy, sex, and reading in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries -- Leaping from the flames : love, redemption, and holy war in the Albigensian Crusade -- Conclusion : the uses of exclusion and fear for a community of love
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1501716808