Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages: Essays on the Work of R.I. Moore (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, V. 129) (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)

353 Pages·2006·1.34 MB·English

by  Michael Frassetto

HERESY AND THE PERSECUTING SOCIETY
IN THE MIDDLE AGES
STUDIES IN THE HISTORY
OF
CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS
FOUNDED BY HEIKO A. OBERMAN †
EDITED BY
ROBERT J. BAST, Knoxville, Tennessee
IN COOPERATION WITH
HENRY CHADWICK, Cambridge
SCOTT H. HENDRIX, Princeton, New Jersey
PAUL C.H. LIM, Hamilton, Massachusetts
ERIC SAAK, Indianapolis, Indiana
BRIAN TIERNEY, Ithaca, New York
ARJOVANDERJAGT, Groningen
JOHN VAN ENGEN, Notre Dame, Indiana
VOLUME CXXIX
M. FRASSETTO
HERESY AND THE PERSECUTING SOCIETY
IN THE MIDDLE AGES
HERESY AND THE PERSECUTING
SOCIETY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
ESSAYS ON THE WORK OF R.I. MOORE
EDITED BY
MICHAEL FRASSETTO
BRILL
LEIDEN •BOSTON
2006
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Heresy and the persecuting society in the Middle Ages : essays on the work of R.I.
Moore / edited by Michael Frassetto.
p. cm. — (Studies in the history of Christian traditions, ISSN 1573-5664 ; v. 129)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 90-04-15098-6 (alk. paper)
1. Moore, R. I. (Robert Ian), 1941- 2. Heresies, Christian—History—Middle Ages,
600-1500. 3. Persecution—Europe—History—To 1500. I. Frassetto, Michael.
II. Series.
BT1319.H475 2006
273’.6—dc22
2005058259
ISSN 1573-5664
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements .................................................... vii
ListofContributors.................................................... ix
Introduction............................................................ 1
MichaelFrassetto
Moore’sEleventhandTwelfthCenturies:Travelsinthe
Agro-LiteratePolity.................................................... 11
EdwardPeters
AdemarofChabannesandtheBogomils ............................ 31
DanielF.Callahan
ItalianSocietyandtheOriginsofEleventh-CenturyWestern
Heresy.................................................................. 43
ArthurSiegel
Pagans,Heretics,Saracens,andJewsintheSermonsofAdemar
ofChabannes .......................................................... 73
MichaelFrassetto
BogomilInfluencesonWesternHeresy .............................. 93
BernardHamilton
NorthernCatharism...................................................115
MalcolmBarber
AuthorityandtheCatharHeresyintheNorthernLanguedoc .....139
ClaireTaylor
TheMassacreatBéziersJuly 22,1209:ARevisionistLook .........195
LaurenceW.Marvin
Heresy,GoodMen,andNomenclature ..............................227
MarkPegg
Cathars,Confraternities,andCivicReligion:TheBlurryBorder
betweenHeresyandOrthodoxy......................................241
SusanTaylorSnyder
vi contents
IdolatryandFraud:theCaseofRiperando andtheHoly
Managlia...............................................................253
CarolLansing
ChasingPhantoms:PhilipIVandtheFantastic .....................271
JamesGiven
AfterthoughtsonTheOriginsofEuropeanDissent.......................291
R.I.Moore
Index ...................................................................327
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TheoriginsofthisvolumecanbetracedtoasessionatKalamazoo,but
for many of the volume’s contributors the origins can be traced totheir
first meeting with the work of R.I. Moore. I wish to thank Professor
Moore particularly for his involvement in this volume as well as his
support for the work of all those involved. His insights into medieval
heresyandsocietyhave formedthebasisformuchoftheworkofmany
of those involved in this volume, and it is the purpose of this volume
to recognize his contributions and to continue the investigations he
began. I should also thank the contributors to this volume, who have
given their time and efforts to make this volume a success. Thanks are
owedtoHendrikvanLeusen,RobertBast,andthemanyfinepeopleat
Brill for their support and assistance in bringing this work to its fruitful
conclusion. My colleague and friend, Sarah Orwig, has offered much
encouragementandhasbeenahelpfulsoundingboardformanyofthe
ideas that appear in my own contribution to this volume. Finally, I owe
mydeepestthankstoJillandOlivia,whohavehelpedmeinmoreways
thantheyknow.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Malcolm Barber BA, PhD (Nottingham), FRHistS. Professor of His-
tory. Director of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, 1986–
1989. British Academy Research Readership, 1989–1991. Leverhulme
Research Fellowship, 1997–1998. Senior Fellowship, National Humani-
ties Center, North Carolina, 1998–1999. Author of The Trial of the Tem-
plars (1978), The Two Cities: Medieval Europe, 1050–1320 (1992), The New
Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple (1994), Crusaders and Heretics,
12th to 14th Centuries (1995), The Cathars (2000) and many articles on the
Templars, the Cathars, the crusader states, popular crusading move-
ments,thelepersinmedievalsociety,westernattitudestoLatinGreece,
andthereignofPhiliptheFair.Editor,TheMilitaryOrders.Fightingforthe
Faith and Caring for the Sick (1994). General editor of A History of Medieval
Europe,publishedbyRoutledge.EditorofTheJournal ofMedievalHistory.
Daniel Callahan, Professor of History at the University of Delaware
received his Ph.D. in 1968 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
where his majorprofessorwas David Herlihy. He has published articles
on tenth- and eleventh-century spirituality, with a concentration on the
writingsofAdemarofChabannes.Hismostrecentpiecesinclude“The
CultofSt.MichaeltheArchangeland‘TheTerrorsoftheYear1000,’”
inTheApocalypticYear:ReligiousExpectationsandSocialChange,ca.950–1050,
eds.R. Landes and D.Van Meter.He is currentlyworking on the book
The Making of a Millennial Pilgrim: Jerusalem and the Cross in the Life and
WritingsofAdemar ofChabannes.
Michael Frassetto is an independent scholar and adjunct instructor
at the University of Delaware. He has earned degrees from LaSalle
University(BA),MichiganStateUniversity(MA),andtheUniversityof
Delaware (Ph.D.). He edited Medieval Purity and Piety: Essays on Medieval
Clerical Celibacy and Religious Reform (New York, 1998), The Year 1000
(2002) and co-edited (with David Blanks) Western Views of Islam in Me-
dievalandEarlyModernEurope:PerceptionofOther (1999).
James Given is professor of history at the University of California
Irvine. He is the author of State and Society in Medieval Europe, Society