Hunter Ian - Heresy in transition: transforming ideas of heresy in medieval and early modern Europe

HERESY IN TRANSITION

Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Edited by

IAN HUNTER
University of Queensland, Australia

JOHN CHRISTIAN LAURSEN
University of California at Riverside, USA

CARY J. NEDERMAN
Texas A&M University, USA

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing

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Heresy in transition : transforming ideas of heresy in medieval and early modem Europe.(Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)

1.Heresies, ChristianEuropeHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500 2.Heresies, ChristianEuropeHistoryModem period, 1500 3.Heretics, ChristianEuropeHistoryTo 1500 4.Heretics, ChristianEuropeHistory16th century 5.Heretics, ChristianEuropeHistory-17th century 6.EuropeChurch History-600-1500 7.Europe, Church history16th century 8.EuropeChurch history-17th century

I.Laursen, John Christian II.Nederman, Cary J. III.Hunter, Ian, 1949-273.6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Heresy in transition : transforming ideas of heresy in medieval and early modem Europe / [edited by] John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman, and Ian Hunter.

p. cm.(Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)

ISBN 027546-5428-1 (alk. paper)

1. Heresies, ChristianHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500. 2. Heresies, ChristianHistory. 3. EuropeChurch history-600-1500. 4. EuropeChurch history16th century. 5. EuropeChurch history-17th century. I. Laursen, John Christian. II. Nederman, Cary J. III. Hunter, Ian, 1949 IV. Series.

BT1319.H48 2005
273'.6dc22

2005005545

ISBN 978-0-7546-5428-5 (hbk)

Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen and Cary J. Nederman

1 Before the Coming of Popular Heresy:
The Rhetoric of Heresy in English Historiography, c. 700-1154
Paul Antony Hayward

Sabina Flanagan

3 Accusations of Heresy and Error in the Twelfth-Century Schools:
The Witness of Gerhoh of Reichersberg and Otto of Freising
Constant J. Mews

Takashi Shogimen

5 A Heretic Hiding in Plain Sight:
The Secret History of Marsiglio of Padua's Defensor Pacis in the Thought of Nicole Oresme
Cary J. Nederman

6 Seduced by the Theologians:
Aeneas Sylvius and the Hussite Heretics
Thomas A. Fudge

7 Heresy Hunting and Clerical Reform:
William Warham, John Colet, and the Lollards of Kent, 1511-1512
Craig D'Alton

8 Curtailing the Office of the Priest:
Two Seventeenth2Century Views of the Causes and Functions of Heresy
Conal Condren

9 Historicizing Heresy in the Early German Enlightenment:
'Orthodox' and 'Enthusiast' Variants
Thomas Ahnert

John Christian Laursen

Ian Hunter

12 Exporting Heresiology: Translations and Revisions of Pluquet's
Dictionnaire des heresies
Gisela Schlter

Sandra Pott

Thomas Ahnert holds a BA and a PhD in History from St. John's College in Cambridge, England. He is presently a Leverhulme post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, where his current research is on the development of a 'Science of Man' in the Scottish Enlightenment. He has also worked on the German Enlightenment and a monograph on the philosopher and jurist Christian Thomasius is in preparation. His publications include a number of articles and reviews on German and British intellectual history in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

Conal Condren is Scientia Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and is a member of Churchill College and Clare Hall, Cambridge. His main research interests are in political theory, language and argument in early modern England; and in the theory of historical and textual analysis. Among his previous books are The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts, (Princeton, 1985); George Lawson's 'Politica' and the English Revolution (Cambridge 1989, 2002); The Language of Politics in Seventeenth-Century England, (Macmillan, 1994); Satire, Lies and Politics: the Case of Dr. Arbuthnot, (Macmillan, 1997); and Thomas Hobbes, (Twayne, New York 2000). He is currently finishing a large monograph on office-holding and oath-taking in early modern England, prefatory to a purely theoretical companion study on metaphor and concept formation.

Craig D'Alton teaches the history and theology of the English and European Reformations at Yarra Theological Union, part of the Melbourne College of Divinity. He is also a research fellow of the department of history at the University of Melbourne. Craig's most recent publications include articles in Sixteenth Century Journal and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History on anti-heresy policy in early Henrician England, with others forthcoming in Albion and Historical Research. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled Thomas More: A life of writing.

Sabina Flanagan (BA Sydney, PhD Adelaide) is the author of Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life (Routledge, 1989; second revised edn 1998) which has also been published in Italian and Polish translations. A former ARC Australian Research Fellow in the departments of History at the University of Melbourne and the University of Adelaide, she is currently completing a book tentatively entitled: Doubt in an Age of Faith: Uncertainty in the Long Twelfth Century.

Thomas A. Fudge holds a PhD in theology from Otago University and a PhD in history from Cambridge University. He is the author of four books, two of them on the Hussite heresy: The Magnificent Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia (Ashgate, 1998) and The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia (Ashgate, 2002) as well as more than thirty scholarly articles on various aspects of religious history. His research areas are mainly in late medieval and Reformation Europe. He currently teaches courses on Medieval Europe, the Reformation, witch hunting, and Hussites and is actively continuing research on Hussite history.

Paul Antony Hayward teaches early medieval history at Lancaster University (United Kingdom). His publications include