TY - BOOK ID - 4882473 TI - Cathars in question AU - Sennis, Antonio C. AU - University of York. AU - University College, London AU - Warburg Institute PY - 2016 SN - 9781903153680 1903153689 9781782048176 1782048170 PB - York : York Medieval Press, DB - UniCat KW - Albigenses. KW - Cathares KW - Christian church history KW - anno 500-1499 KW - France KW - Italy KW - Balkan Peninsula KW - Albigenses KW - Albigensians KW - Cathari KW - Catharists KW - Cathars KW - Christian heresies KW - History KW - Balkan States KW - Balkans KW - Europe, Southeastern KW - Southeastern Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4882473 AB - Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs, understood to be inspired by Balkan dualism, are often seen as the most radical among medieval heresies. However, recent work has fiercely challenged this paradigm, arguing instead that "Catharism" was a construct of its persecutors, mis-named and mis-represented by generations of subsequent scholarship, and its supposedly radical views were a fantastical projection of the fears of orthodox commentators.
This volume brings together a wide range of views from some of the most distinguished international scholars in the field, in order to address the debate directly while also opening up new areas for research. Focussing on dualism and anti-materialist beliefs in southern France, Italy and the Balkans, it considers a number of crucial issues. These include: what constitutes popular belief; how (and to what extent) societies of the past were based on the persecution of dissidents; and whether heresy can be seen as an invention of orthodoxy. At the same time, the essays shed new light on some key aspects of the political, cultural, religious and economic relationships between the Balkans and more western regions of Europe in the Middle Ages.
Antonio Sennis isSenior Lecturer in Medieval History at University College London Contributors: John H. Arnold, Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi, David d'Avray, Jörg Feuchter, Bernard Hamilton, Robert I. Moore, MarkGregory Pegg, Rebecca Rist, Lucy Sackville, Antonio Sennis, Claire Taylor, Julien Théry-Astruc, Yuri Stoyanov ER -