Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 1170-1215: DECISIVE AND PURPOSIVE ORIGINS -- LEGENDS -- VAUDÈS -- THE FOUNDATIONS -- The bible -- Poverty -- Preaching -- THE FIRST COMMUNITY -- CONFLICT -- EXCOMMUNICATION -- EVOLUTIONS -- TENSION FROM WITHIN -- A CRITICAL SITUATION -- A CONTEXTUAL EVALUATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2 THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY: THE NEED TO ADAPT -- THE MEETING IN BERGAMO -- THE BELATED ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW -- THE INQUISITION -- JUDICIAL SOURCES -- THE MOVEMENT DISPERSED.
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5 THE CONSTRAINTS OF A LIFE IN HIDING -- WORDS AND ACTIONS -- CHANGE AND CONTINUITY -- THE CORROSIVE EFFECTS OF TIME -- SAILING UNDER FALSE COLOURS -- AN IDENTITY -- POVERTY -- PLAYING DOWN DIFFERENCE -- THE TRANSMISSION OF FAITH -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 6 THE NEED TO ORGANISE -- THE PIONEERS -- MASTERS AND BELIEVERS -- HIERARCHY -- THE ORDER OF BROTHERS -- BEARERS OF THE WORD -- THE BARBES -- A SECRET ORGANISATION -- LABOUR AND PIETY -- A FUTURE BARBE -- A SPIRITUAL POWER -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 7 A CULTURE OF THEIR OWN: THE WRITTEN AND THE SPOKEN WORD -- THE STRENGTH OF THE SPOKEN WORD.
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CLANDESTINITY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 3 THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: THE CHALLENGE OF BELIEVING DIFFERENTLY -- THE DIVERSITY OF DISSENT -- THE WALDENSIAN IDENTITY -- A DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS SENSIBILITY -- Falsehood -- Oaths -- Purgatory -- Confession -- Donatism -- NUANCES AND VARIATIONS -- The death penalty -- The eucharist -- Ecclesiastical power -- The saints -- THE DANGERS AND THE STAKES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: THE RISKS OF LONGEVITY -- A DIASPORA -- ONE COMMUNITY? -- THE CRIME OF VAUDERIE -- A TENACIOUS CONFUSION -- THE HUSSITES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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THE DARK YEARS OF THE SUN KING -- CONFLICT, RESPITE AND LIBERATION -- TO ITALY, AND INTO THE WORLD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONCLUSION -- A SECT OR A CHURCH? -- RUPTURE OR CONTINUITY? -- TRANSMUTATION, CONVERSION OR SUICIDE? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MANUSCRIPTS -- PRINTED SOURCES -- SECONDARY WORKS -- Context or other religious movements -- General history of the Waldensians -- The whole Waldensian diaspora -- Regional studies -- INDEX.
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THE PRESTIGE OF THE WRITTEN WORD -- THE BARBES' BOOKS -- ANOTHER CLERGY? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 8 THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: THE END AS A WAY FORWARD? -- FIRST CONTACTS WITH THE REFORMATION -- A CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN COMMUNITY -- DIALOGUE AND DEBATE -- COMMOTION AT THE SYNOD -- RENUNCIATION -- A FRENCH BIBLE -- FROM DECISION TO PRACTICE -- NEW PARISHES -- NEW PROTESTANTS -- THE MEANING OF THEIR EXTINCTION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 9 EPILOGUE: THE WALDENSIAN CHURCH -- THE ÈXECUTION OF CABRIÈRES AND MÉRINDOL' -- MASSACRE IN CALABRIA -- THE WALDENSIAN VALLEYS -- UNCERTAIN TIMES -- THE PIEDMONTESE EASTER.
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"The Poor of Lyons, called by their detractors 'Waldensians' after their founder Waldo or Vaudes, first emerged around 1170. Like other groups of the period, they formed a religious community founded on the strict observance of the gospel, preaching and poverty. Defying Church rulings stating that the laity had no right to preach and applying the scriptures to the letter, in particular denying the existence of purgatory and refusing to take oaths, they were condemned as heretics. The community was forced underground and dispersed widely; but through a unique, organised body of intinerant preachers they nevertheless managed to maintain links throughout the whole of Europe." "This book is less a history of Waldensianism than an account of those men and women who, remaining true to an ideal, lived in anxiety and under suspicion, often fearful and sometimes in blind terror. Proclaiming their faith timidly, yet with an astounding - sometimes dogged - tenacity, they hold up a mirror to us today."--Jacket.