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https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15236| Title: | Obrana "Kacířství": teoretické pojednání | English Title: | Defending Heresy: a theoretical elaboration | Contributor(s): | Fudge, Thomas (author) |
Publication Date: | 2003 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15236 | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Medievalia Historica Bohemica, v.9, p. 295-314 | Publisher: | Historicky Ustav, Akademie Ved Ceske Republiky [The Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic] | Place of Publication: | Czech Republic | ISSN: | 0862-979X | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210307 European History (excl British, Classical Greek and Roman) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.hiu.cas.cz/en/publishing-center/journals-and-periodicals/mediaevalia/cislo-9.ep/ | English Abstract: | Obsession with order and fear of disorder characterized later medieval Europe. Conflict was woven into the fabric of these centuries: warfare, disease, natural disaster, corruption, violence, famine, the uncertainty of life, witches, demons, outsiders, despair, death and, underlying it all, fear. For a world which made little distinction between religion and society, spiritual presence and the secular sphere as 'societas christiana', none of these considerations could compare in seriousness with events of less visible appearance - events and developments of world-shaking importance which formed the background to much of European history in the late medieval period. These events were the solemn and sinister development and steady advance of heresy across Europe. The rise of heresy witnessed a concomitant increase in repressive measures. Did heresy cause social control, or did increased social control give rise to heresy? While much of what constitutes 'news' in the early twenty-first century is about deviant behavior and its consequences, similar claims might be made for many official records of the later Middle Ages. A theoretical elaboration of medieval heresy has less to do with ideas or religious concepts, and more with how those ideas and concepts were understood by the forces of history in which they emerged and how the influence of principalities and powers genetically foreign to them manipulated their formation and their social consequences. That relation was both systemic and essential in the formation and regulation of later medieval European religion and society. This essay defends the appropriate use of the term "heresy" and argues for its continued viability. |
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