Defining heresy : inquisition, theology, and papal policy in the time of Jacques Fournier /

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Author / Creator:Bueno, Irene, author.
Uniform title:Eresie medievali. English.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : BrIll, 2015.
Description:xii, 371 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in medieval and reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; volume 192
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; volume 192.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10447457
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ISBN:9789004304253 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004304258 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004304260 (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-362) and indexes.
Summary:In Defining Heresy, Irene Bueno investigates the methods and discourses of anti-heretical repression in the first half of the fourteenth century, focusing on the figure of Jacques Fournier/Benedict XII (c.1284-1342), bishop-inquisitor, theologian, and, eventually, pope at Avignon.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. At the Crossroad of Justices
  • 1. At the Crossroad of Justices: A Bishop's Court in the Early Fourteenth Century
  • 1.1. Secular Justice in Languedoc
  • 1.2. Sharing Rights in the City of Pamiers
  • 1.3. The Decretal Multorum Querela
  • 1.4. The Internal Organization of the Court of Pamiers
  • 1.5. The Accused of Jacques Fournier
  • 2. Repressing secundum iura, Jacques Fournier, Inquisitorial Procedures and Dissimulation
  • 2.1. Inquest and Preliminary Stages
  • 2.2. Oath
  • 2.3. Informatio and preventio
  • 2.4. Proof, Confession, Memory
  • 2.5. Persuasion and Coercion: How to Get a Confession
  • 2.6. "The Way that Heretics Usually Respond"
  • 2.7. Abjuration and Sentence
  • 3. Questioning Heretics: Proving Error according to Tradition
  • 3.1. On the Fact of Heresy
  • 3.2. Questions about Belief
  • 4. The Extension of Heretical Paradigm
  • 4.1. The Bishop-Inquisitor and the Duality of Justice
  • 4.2. The Bishop-Administrator and the Anticlerical Protest
  • 4.3. From Observation to Religious Doubt
  • Part 2. The Gospel and the Heretics
  • 5. Heresy in Fournier's Theological and Exegetical Writings
  • 5.1. Jacques Fournier and the Theological Consultations of John XXII
  • 5.2. Fournier's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
  • 5.3. Organization of the Work
  • 6. Heretics in Fournier's Commentary on Matthew
  • 6.1. Corrupting Faith, Corrupting Customs
  • 6.2. False Prophets
  • 6.3. "Beware of Heretics"
  • 6.4. Falsity
  • 6.5. Improbity
  • 6.6. Guile
  • 6.7. Malice and Cruelty
  • 7. The Signs of Heresy: How to Tell a Plant from Its Fruit
  • 7.1. Recognizing Heretics by Their Words and Actions
  • 7.2. Heresy as Absolute Evil
  • 7.3. Sweet and Useful Fruits, Bitter and Useless Fruits
  • 8. The Origin of Evil and Individual Responsibility
  • 8.1. The Origin of Evil by Reason of Being
  • 8.2. The Origin of Evil by Reason of Possibility
  • 8.3. The Condemnation of Bad Plants
  • Part 3. The Papacy against Heretics
  • 9. Heretics, Rebels, and Schismatics in the Pontificate of Benedict XII
  • 9.1. Beguins, Friars, and Fraticelli in Benedict XII's Political Horizon
  • 9.2. Reconciliation and Obedience: The Failure of Negotiations with Louis the Bavarian
  • 10. Apostolico conspectui: Heretics and Inquisitors between Centre and Periphery
  • 10.1. The Protection of Secular Lords
  • 10.2. Against Inquisitorial Abuse
  • 10.3. Magic and Sorcery, Divination and Devil Invocation
  • 11. Schismatics and Infidels beyond the Frontiers of Latin Christianity
  • 11.1. Border Clashes in the Iberian Peninsula
  • 11.2. The Schism of the East and the Crusade against the Turks
  • 11.3. The Errors of the Armenians
  • 11.4. The Universal Shepherd and the Conversion of the Tartars
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects