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Burning bodies : communities, eschatology, and the punishment of heresy in the Middle Ages
- Title
- Burning bodies : communities, eschatology, and the punishment of heresy in the Middle Ages / Michael D. Barbezat.
- Author
- Barbezat, Michael D.
- Publication
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xii, 271 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics, tracing them from the earliest instances in the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century"--
- Subjects
- Europe
- Christian heretics
- Fire > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Flesh (Theology) > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- History
- Europe > Church history > 600-1500
- Church history
- 600-1500
- Christian heretics > Europe > History
- Human body > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Genre/Form
- Church history.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-263) and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- Witches and orgiastic rituals : 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1447
- ISBN
- 9781501716805
- 1501716808
- LCCN
- 2018017278
- 40028688402
- OCLC
- 1031407757
- Author
- Barbezat, Michael D., author.
- Title
- Burning bodies : communities, eschatology, and the punishment of heresy in the Middle Ages / Michael D. Barbezat.
- Publisher
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-263) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 600-1500
- Other Form:
- Online version: Barbezat, Michael D. Burning bodies. 1st edition. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501716829 (DLC) 2018018164
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028688402
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1447