| Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century: The Textual Representations Contributor(s): Sackville, L. J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1903153565 ISBN-13: 9781903153567 Publisher: York Medieval Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Collections | Medieval - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 273.6 |
| Series: Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.76 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Heresy is always relative; the traces that it leaves to us are distorted and one-sided. In the last few decades, historians have responded to these problems by developing increasingly sophisticated methodologies that help to unravel and illuminate the tangled layers from which the texts that describe heresy are built, but in the process have made our reading of heresy fractured and disconnected. Heresy and Heretics seeks to redress this by reading the different types of anti-heretical writing as part of a wider, connected tradition, considering all the principal orthodox treatments of heresy for the first time. Drawn from the mid-thirteenth century, a time when both medieval heresy and the church's response to it were at their zenith, they describe a spectrum of material that ranges from the theological arguments of some of the greatest thinkers of the age to the homely sermons of the wandering preachers. |