Power and Purity Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy

Name: Power and Purity Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy
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ISBN: 9780195063912

ISBN-10: 0195063910

ISBN-13: 9780195063912

Edition: 1998

Authors: Carol Lansing

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Catharism was a popular medieval heresy based on the belief that the creation of humankind was a disaster in which angelic spirits were trapped in matter by the devil. Their only goal was to escape the body through purification. Cathars denied any value to material life, including the human body, baptism, and the Eucharist, even marriage and childbirth. What could explain the long popularity of such a bleak faith in the towns of southern France and Italy? Power and Purity explores the place of cathar heresy in the life of the medieval Italian town of Orvieto. Based on extensive archival research, it details the social makeup of the Cathar community and argues that the heresy was central to…

Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/12/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.39" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English




Introduction


The Cathar Community


Repression and Heresy


Definitions and Sources



The Politics of the Cathars



The Murder of Parenzo


Pope and Bishop in Orvieto


Cathar and Papal Rector


The Early Cathars



Orvietan Society and the Early Popolo


Social Structure and Family


Clientage


The Rise of the Popolo


Early Efforts Against the Cathars



The Cathars


Minor Elites


Furriers and Artisans


Florentine Cathars



The Beliefs of Italian Cathars



Belief and Doubt


Cathar Believers


Skepticism and Doubt


Doubt and Authority in Orvieto



Sexed Bodies, Married Bodies, and Dead Bodies


Creation and Sexual Difference


Sexual Difference in Cathar Practice


Marriage


Bodies of the Dead



Orthodoxy and Authority: The Cathars Become Heretics



Inquisition, Repression, and Toleration


Guelf Dominance and the Sentences of the Inquisitors


Repression and Power


Protest and Popular Toleration: The Tumult in Bologna



Corpus Domini and the Creation of Adam and Eve


Papal Curia and Corpus Domini


Civic Authority


Creation Retold



The Statement of Andreas and Pietro



A 1212 Marriage Case from the Bishop's Court


Notes


Works Cited


Index