Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Prefatory Note on Words
- List of Abbreviations
- Map 1 Medieval Quercy
- Map 2 Gourdon and its sphere
- The house of Gourdon
- Introduction
- 1 Investigating medieval Quercy: questions about sources
- 2 Medieval Quercy
- 3 War and its aftermath
- 4 ‘Heretical’ Quercy: the evidence gathered by c.1245
- 5 Heresy: a social and cultural life
- 6 Heresy and what it meant
- 7 The reshaping of Quercy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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3 - War and its aftermath
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Prefatory Note on Words
- List of Abbreviations
- Map 1 Medieval Quercy
- Map 2 Gourdon and its sphere
- The house of Gourdon
- Introduction
- 1 Investigating medieval Quercy: questions about sources
- 2 Medieval Quercy
- 3 War and its aftermath
- 4 ‘Heretical’ Quercy: the evidence gathered by c.1245
- 5 Heresy: a social and cultural life
- 6 Heresy and what it meant
- 7 The reshaping of Quercy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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Summary
Many southern-French nobles and townspeople took to what was being defined as ‘heresy’, adhering to new beliefs and devotional practices in the twelfth century, while possibly not fully understanding or minding the doctrinal distinctiveness of the different ‘christianities’. This distinction was, however, at the heart of a crisis in Rome, in abbeys such as Cîteaux and in the Paris schools as they grappled in their own way with ‘heresy’ of various types in the twelfth century. So it is possible to describe two parallel processes taking place by c.1180. On the one hand there was an attraction on a large scale to popular new sects at a grass-roots level and, in the case of Catharism, some level of belief in a new meta-narrative for creation and the nature of human existence. On the other, a process of doctrinal ‘tightening up’ was taking place as clergy established for themselves what was and was not orthodox belief and practice, and codified how to deal with dissent in legislation such as Ad abolendam.
Ad abolendam names the Cathar sect and the Waldensians (or the ‘Poor of Lyons’), among others, but its most detailed condemnations relate to traits clergy attributed specifically to dualists. So while it condemns preaching without license and commentary on the sacraments by those so proscribed it refers to consolati (‘the consoled’), or credentes, or perfecti, terms almost only ever used about dualists.
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- Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Medieval Quercy , pp. 87 - 121Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011