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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Ithaca London
Cornell University Press
2018
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| 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 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xii, 271 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-1680-5 1-5017-1680-8 978-1-5017-1682-9 1-5017-1682-4 |
