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

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Bibliographic Details
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

Table of 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
Witches and orgiastic rituals: 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.

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