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 -- 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.
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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"--
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctt21g8gdb
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Burning bodies.
International Standard Book Number
9781501716805
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Christian heretics-- Europe-- History.
Fire-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
Flesh (Theology)-- History of doctrines-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Human body-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.