Defining Heresy: Inquisition, Theology, and Papal Policy in the Time of Jacques FournierIn Defining Heresy, Irene Bueno investigates the theories and practices of anti-heretical repression in the first half of the fourteenth century, focusing on the figure of Jacques Fournier/Benedict XII (c.1284-1342). Throughout his career as a bishop-inquisitor in Languedoc, theologian, and, eventually, pope at Avignon, Fournier made a multi-faceted contribution to the fight against religious dissent. Making use of judicial, theological, and diplomatic sources, the book sheds light on the multiplicity of methods, discourses, and textual practices mobilized to define the bounds of heresy at the end of the Middle Ages. The integration of these commonly unrelated areas of evidence reveals the intellectual and political pressures that inflected the repression of heretics and dissidents in the peculiar context of the Avignon papacy. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part
1 At the Crossroad of Justices | 13 |
A Bishops Court
in the Early Fourteenth Century | 15 |
2 Repressing secundum iura Jacques Fournier
Inquisitorial Procedures and Dissimulation | 45 |
Proving Error
according to Tradition | 88 |
4
The Extension of Heretical Paradigm | 119 |
Part 2
The Gospel and the Heretics | 149 |
5 Heresy in Fourniers Theological and
Exegetical Writings | 151 |
Part 3
The Papacy against Heretics | 245 |
9 Heretics Rebels and Schismatics in the Pontificate of Benedict X
II | 247 |
Heretics and Inquisitors
between Centre and Periphery | 275 |
103 Magic
and Sorcery Divination and Devil Invocation | 289 |
11 Schismatics and Infidels beyond the Frontiers
of Latin Christianity | 296 |
Conclusions | 332 |
| 339 | |
| 363 | |
6
Heretics in Fourniers Commentary on Matthew | 176 |
How to Tell a Plant from
Its Fruit | 203 |
8
The Origin of Evil and Individual Responsibility | 227 |
Common terms and phrases
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