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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
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“Razing” the Stakes: Personal Trials and Political Tribulations
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Joker’s Wild: Misappropriations of Orthodoxy and Misrepresentations of Heterodoxy
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The House Always Wins: Power Politics and the Threat of Force
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"These original essays consider key occasions on which accusations and persecutions of heresy in premodern Western Europe possessed strong political as well as doctrinal dimensions. Together, they challenge formidably the argument of the 'persecuting society' whose driving agency was an ecclesiastical elite, and they open the motives of heresy prosecution to a broader range of social forces. The volume is a major contribution to the lively current scholarship on the subject." - Edward Peters, Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History, University of Pennsylvania, USA
"Gambling metaphors structure this ground-breaking collection and reflect the chancy nature of political and religious dissent, as well as the book's own wager that we will profit from a shift in the traditional emphasis on enforcement to the ways in which accusations could be employed, especially to fulfill political aims - from Joan of Arc to Joachim, from Cathars to conciliarism, from Christian concepts of heresy to Muslim notions of apostasy." - Gerald Christianson, Emeritus Professor of Church History, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, USA
"The history of heresy in Christian Europe of the Middle Ages was always a complex brew of ideas and politics. Personal connections counted, and so did the property interests of powerful people and orders. This outstanding collection of detailed studies makes it clear that many of the prevailing generalizations about heresy are no longer valid. Thefinal chapter is an eye-opening study of reactions to heterodoxy in the Muslim world of the time: major thinkers there were more worried about apostasy than heresy, but the political dimension was never absent. Some things never change." - John Christian Laursen, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, USA
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Book Title: Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries
Book Subtitle: Playing the Heresy Card
Editors: Karen Bollermann, Thomas M. Izbicki, Cary J. Nederman
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431059
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Karen Bollermann, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Cary J. Nederman 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43104-2Published: 17 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49221-3Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43105-9Published: 17 December 2014
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 242
Topics: History of Religion, Religion and Society, History of Medieval Europe, History of Philosophy, Political History