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Heresy in the Middle Ages
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- "there is no other world except this present one" - Jacotte Corot, of Ax
- "there is no soul" - Raimond of Sicre, of Ascou
- "he had not heard it from heretics" - Peter Maury, of Montaillou
- If everyone is believing differently - who is the heretic?
HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Why did the church and medieval states believe
that heresy was a threat?
What is heresy?
"a doctrine or a sect or an individual
[is heretical]...when condemned as such by the church"
Growth of church = growth of heresy
Social Factors
- Education
- Enormous wealth of church vs poor (taxes)
- Secular priests
Who was the heretic?
Church Reformation
- 11th & 12th centuries
- Centralization and universalism of church
- Gregorian reform
- Disputes with secular
- Canon Law
Causes of Heresy
Unstable foundations for
both church and state
- heretical threat
'spreadeth like cancer'
The Cathars
- 'Greatest Heresy'
- Opposite to Roman Catholic Orthodoxy
- Spread through Languedoc in early 13th century
- Biggest threat to church and state
Extermination of Catharism
- Church and State united
- Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229)
- 'Field of the Burnt' - 16th March 1244
Why was heresy a threat?
Were heretics ever a threat?
- Believed to be a threat by church and state
- Inquisition created
- Crusades
- Persecutions - increase of violence
Thank you for listening.
Any questions?
However:
- Church and state united in wars against heretics
- "Warriors of Christ"
- Showed strength
- Massive armies
- By 15th century papal and kingly authority had been greater than ever before
- So was a heresy a threat?
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