Title Burning bodies : communities, eschatology, and the punishment of heresy in the Middle Ages / Michael D. Barbezat

Published Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) 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 -- 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 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"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Heresy, eschatology, medieval authors, processes of social inclusion and exclusion, the burning alive of Christian heretics, internal crusades of the thirteenth century, the love of God Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 26, 2018) Subject Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 Flesh (Theology) -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 Fire -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Christian heretics -- Europe -- History RELIGION -- History. HISTORY -- Medieval. Christian heretics Fire -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Häresie Albigenser Autodafé Verfolgung Häretiker SUBJECT Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045634 Subject Europe Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018018164 ISBN 9781501716829 1501716824 9781501716812 1501716816

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