Burning bodies : communities, eschatology, and the punishment of heresy in the Middle Ages /

Burning bodies : communities, eschatology, and the punishment of heresy in the Middle Ages /

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Author / Creator:Barbezat, Michael D., author.
Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:xii, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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.
Christian heretics.
Fire -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500.
Europe.
Church history.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11738246
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ISBN:9781501716805
1501716808
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and index.
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"--
Other form:Online version: Barbezat, Michael D. Burning bodies. 1st edition. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501716829

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