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Format: xii, 271 Seiten : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-1-5017-1680-5

Series Statement: Medieval studies / Religion

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, pdf ISBN 978-1-5017-1682-9

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, epub/mobi ISBN 978-1-5017-1681-2

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Häretiker ; Verfolgung ; Autodafé ; Albigenser ; Verfolgung ; Häresie

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ISBN: 9781501716829

Content: Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics. Michael Barbezat traces these instances from the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century, depicting the exclusionary fires of hell and judicial execution, the purifying fire of post-mortem purgation, and the unifying fire of God’s love that medieval authors used to describe processes of social inclusion and exclusion.Burning Bodies analyses how the accounts of burning heretics alive referenced, affirmed, and elaborated upon wider discourses of community and eschatology. Descriptions of burning supposed heretics alive were profoundly related to ideas of a redemptive Christian community based upon a divine, unifying love, and medieval understandings of what these burnings could have meant to contemporaries cannot be fully appreciated outside of this discourse of communal love. For them, human communities were bodies on fire. Medieval theologians and academics often described the corporate identity of the Christian world as a body joined together by the love of God. This love was like a fire, melting individuals together into one whole. Those who did not spiritually burn with God’s love were destined to burn literally in the fires of Hell or Purgatory, and the fires of execution were often described as an earthly extension of these fires. Through this analysis, Barbezat demonstrates how presentations of heresy, and to some extent actual responses to perceived heretics, were shaped by long-standing images of biblical commentary and exegesis. He finds that this imagery is more than a literary curiosity; it is, in fact, a formative historical agent.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Burning Bodies and Medieval Human Communal Identity -- , 1. Our God Is Like a Consuming Fire: Burning Bodies and Christian Community -- , 2. Fields and Bodies: Toleration and Threat in a Shared Space -- , 3. The Beginning at Orleans in 1022: Heretics and Hellfire -- , 4. Likeness in Difference: Three Burnings in the Twelfth-Century Rhineland -- , 5. Like Rejoices in Like: Recognition and Differentiation in Descriptions of Heresy -- , 6. Witches and Orgiastic Rituals: Heresy, Sex, and Reading in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries -- , 7. 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 -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501716829

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501716829

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Format: 1 online resource : , 6 b&w halftones

ISBN: 9781501716829

Content: Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics. Michael Barbezat traces these instances from the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century, depicting the exclusionary fires of hell and judicial execution, the purifying fire of post-mortem purgation, and the unifying fire of God’s love that medieval authors used to describe processes of social inclusion and exclusion.Burning Bodies analyses how the accounts of burning heretics alive referenced, affirmed, and elaborated upon wider discourses of community and eschatology. Descriptions of burning supposed heretics alive were profoundly related to ideas of a redemptive Christian community based upon a divine, unifying love, and medieval understandings of what these burnings could have meant to contemporaries cannot be fully appreciated outside of this discourse of communal love. For them, human communities were bodies on fire. Medieval theologians and academics often described the corporate identity of the Christian world as a body joined together by the love of God. This love was like a fire, melting individuals together into one whole. Those who did not spiritually burn with God’s love were destined to burn literally in the fires of Hell or Purgatory, and the fires of execution were often described as an earthly extension of these fires. Through this analysis, Barbezat demonstrates how presentations of heresy, and to some extent actual responses to perceived heretics, were shaped by long-standing images of biblical commentary and exegesis. He finds that this imagery is more than a literary curiosity; it is, in fact, a formative historical agent.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Burning Bodies and Medieval Human Communal Identity -- , 1. Our God Is Like a Consuming Fire: Burning Bodies and Christian Community -- , 2. Fields and Bodies: Toleration and Threat in a Shared Space -- , 3. The Beginning at Orleans in 1022: Heretics and Hellfire -- , 4. Likeness in Difference: Three Burnings in the Twelfth-Century Rhineland -- , 5. Like Rejoices in Like: Recognition and Differentiation in Descriptions of Heresy -- , 6. Witches and Orgiastic Rituals: Heresy, Sex, and Reading in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries -- , 7. 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 -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501716829

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501716829

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501716829

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501716829

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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages)

Edition: 1st edition.

ISBN: 1-5017-1682-4

Content: Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics. Michael Barbezat traces these instances from the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century, depicting the exclusionary fires of hell and judicial execution, the purifying fire of post-mortem purgation, and the unifying fire of God's love that medieval authors used to describe processes of social inclusion and exclusion.Burning Bodies analyses how the accounts of burning heretics alive referenced, affirmed, and elaborated upon wider discourses of community and eschatology. Descriptions of burning supposed heretics alive were profoundly related to ideas of a redemptive Christian community based upon a divine, unifying love, and medieval understandings of what these burnings could have meant to contemporaries cannot be fully appreciated outside of this discourse of communal love. For them, human communities were bodies on fire. Medieval theologians and academics often described the corporate identity of the Christian world as a body joined together by the love of God. This love was like a fire, melting individuals together into one whole. Those who did not spiritually burn with God's love were destined to burn literally in the fires of Hell or Purgatory, and the fires of execution were often described as an earthly extension of these fires. Through this analysis, Barbezat demonstrates how presentations of heresy, and to some extent actual responses to perceived heretics, were shaped by long-standing images of biblical commentary and exegesis. He finds that this imagery is more than a literary curiosity; it is, in fact, a formative historical agent.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Burning Bodies and Medieval Human Communal Identity -- , 1. Our God Is Like a Consuming Fire: Burning Bodies and Christian Community -- , 2. Fields and Bodies: Toleration and Threat in a Shared Space -- , 3. The Beginning at Orleans in 1022: Heretics and Hellfire -- , 4. Likeness in Difference: Three Burnings in the Twelfth-Century Rhineland -- , 5. Like Rejoices in Like: Recognition and Differentiation in Descriptions of Heresy -- , 6. Witches and Orgiastic Rituals: Heresy, Sex, and Reading in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries -- , 7. 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 -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-5017-1680-8

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-5017-1681-6

Language: English

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DOI: 10.7591/9781501716829

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 271 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-1-5017-1682-9 , 978-1-5017-1681-2

Content: Burning Bodies interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics. Michael Barbezat traces these instances from the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century, depicting the exclusionary fires of hell and judicial execution, the purifying fire of post-mortem purgation, and the unifying fire of God’s love that medieval authors used to describe processes of social inclusion and exclusion.Burning Bodies analyses how the accounts of burning heretics alive referenced, affirmed, and elaborated upon wider discourses of community and eschatology. Descriptions of burning supposed heretics alive were profoundly related to ideas of a redemptive Christian community based upon a divine, unifying love, and medieval understandings of what these burnings could have meant to contemporaries cannot be fully appreciated outside of this discourse of communal love. For them, human communities were bodies on fire. Medieval theologians and academics often described the corporate identity of the Christian world as a body joined together by the love of God. This love was like a fire, melting individuals together into one whole. Those who did not spiritually burn with God’s love were destined to burn literally in the fires of Hell or Purgatory, and the fires of execution were often described as an earthly extension of these fires. Through this analysis, Barbezat demonstrates how presentations of heresy, and to some extent actual responses to perceived heretics, were shaped by long-standing images of biblical commentary and exegesis. He finds that this imagery is more than a literary curiosity; it is, in fact, a formative historical agent

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-5017-1680-5

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Häresie ; Häretiker ; Verfolgung ; Autodafé ; Albigenser ; Verfolgung

DOI: 10.7591/9781501716829

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