Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Karen Bollermann, Thomas M. Izbicki, Cary J. Nederman

      Pages 1-9

3. “Razing” the Stakes: Personal Trials and Political Tribulations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Standing in Abelard’s Shadow: Gilbert of Poitiers, the 1148 Council of Rheims, and the Politics of Ideas

      • Karen Bollermann, Cary J. Nederman

      Pages 13-36

   3. Secular Politics and Academic Condemnation at Oxford, 1358–1411

      • Andrew E. Larsen

      Pages 37-53

   4. “O Cursed Judas”: Formal Heresy Accusations Against Jan Hus

      • Thomas A. Fudge

      Pages 55-80

   5. Questions of Due Process and Conviction in the Trial of Joan of Arc

      • Henry Ansgar Kelly

      Pages 81-100

4. Joker’s Wild: Misappropriations of Orthodoxy and Misrepresentations of Heterodoxy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Making a Heresiarch: Guido Terreni’s Attack on Joachim of Fiore

      • Thomas Turley

      Pages 103-125

   3. The Papal Condemnation of Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor Pacis: Its Preparation and Political Use

      • Frank Godthardt

      Pages 127-138

   4. Tarring Conciliarism with the Brush of Heresy: Juan de Torquemada’s Summa de Ecclesia

      • Thomas M. Izbicki

      Pages 139-151

   5. Ockham, Almain, and the Idea of Heresy

      • Takashi Shogimen

      Pages 153-168

5. The House Always Wins: Power Politics and the Threat of Force

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Hints and Allegations: The Charge of Infidelity in Papal and Imperial Propaganda, 1239–1245

      • John Phillip Lomax

      Pages 171-193

   3. Autonomy, Dissent, and the Crusade Against Fra Dolcino in Fourteenth-Century Valsesia

      • Jerry B. Pierce

      Pages 195-213

   4. Religious Dissent in Premodern Islam: Political Usage of Heresy and Apostasy in Nizam Al-Mulk and Ibn Taymiyya

      • Bettina Koch

      Pages 215-235

6. Back Matter

   Pages 237-242

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Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and political dominance in medieval games of power.

• crusades
• Islam
• religion
• religion and society

"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

Thomas A. Fudge, University of New England, Australia Frank Godthardt, Independent Researcher, Germany Henry Ansgar Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Bettina Koch, Virginia Tech University, USA Andrew E. Larsen, Marquette University, USA John Phillip Lomax, Ohio Northern University, USA Jerry B. Pierce, Penn State Hazleton University, USA Takashi Shogimen, University of Otago, New Zealand Thomas Turley, Santa Clara University, USA

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