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Witchcraft has always intrigued the imagination, sparking visions of Macbeths hags, complete with heathland and bubbling cauldrons. But throughout European history, particularly from the 14th- to the 17th-century, ordinary people were tried and put to death for witchcraft, often in a brutal and grotesque manner. So who were the witches? What were their practises? Who believed in them? What was their place in society? Why were they so feared? How were they accused, tried and executed? Robin Briggs attempts to answer these questions, broadening his scope as he looks beyond the persecutions themselves, to concentrate upon the society they illuminate. Between 1560 and 1660, more people were tried for witchcraft than at any other time in history. The detailed records of many of the trials have allowed the author to build up a description of life among the European peasantry some 400 years ago: the minutiae of social life, daily activities, neighbourhood and kinship ties, the pervasive force of superstition and family relationships.
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• Persecution - heretics, Jews, lepers, the common enemy-- classification-- purity and danger-- power and reason.
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The 10th to the 13th centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the inquisition; expropriation and mass murder of Jews; the foundation of leper hospitals in large numbers and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy. These have traditionally been seen as distinct and separate developments, and explained in terms of the problems which their victims presented to medieval society. This book argues that the coincidences in the treatment of these and other minority groups cannot be explained independently, and that all are part of a pattern of persecution which new appeared for the first time to make Europe become, as it has remained, a persecuting society.
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• Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction, Michael Frassetto
• 1. Moore's Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Travels in the Agro-Literate Polity, Edward Peters
• 2. Ademar of Chabannes and the Bogomils, Daniel F. Callahan
• 3. Italian Society and the Origins of Eleventh-Century Western Heresy, Arthur Siegel
• 4. Pagans, Heretics, Saracens, and Jews in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes, Michael Frassetto
• 5. Bogomil Influences on Western Heresy, Bernard Hamilton
• 6. Northern Catharism, Malcolm Barber
• 7. Authority and the Cathar Heresy in the Northern Languedoc, Claire Taylor
• 8. The Massacre at Beziers July 22,
• 1209: A Revisionist Look, Laurence W. Marvin
• 9. Heresy, Good Men, and Nomenclature, Mark Pegg
• 10. Cathars, Confraternities, and Civic Religion: The Blurry Border between Heresy and Orthodoxy, Susan Taylor Snyder
• 11. Idolatry and Fraud: the Case of Riperando and the Holy Managlia, Carol Lansing
• 12. Chasing Phantoms: Philip IV and the Fantastic, James Given
• 13. Afterthoughts on The Origins of European Dissent, R.I. Moore Index.
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This volume examines the influence of R. I. Moore and the nature of heresy and its repression in the Middle Ages. The volume considers the vexing question of the origins of medieval heresy and the possible influence of Bogomil missionaries. Geographic areas not usually examined for the growth of heresy are examined, and a new understanding of the violence of the Albigensian Crusade is offered. The blurred boundary between heresy and orthodoxy and the nature of heresy and popular religion are also discussed. The final chapters consider the formation of the persecuting society and Moore's reflection on scholarship of the late 20th century. The volume offers new insights into the nature of heresy and society in the Middle Ages. Contributors include: Malcolm Barber, Daniel F. Callahan, Michael Frassetto, James Given, Bernard Hamilton, Carol Lansing, Laurence W. Marvin, R.I. Moore, Mark Pegg, Edward Peters, Arthur Siegel, Susan Taylor Snyder, and Claire Taylor.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Precursors and Origins:
• 1. Christians Accused of Participating in Scandalous Rituals
• 2. The Martyrdom of Saint Perpetua
• 3. Emperor Constantine Condemns Arianism
• 4. Saint Augustine on the Grounds for Religious Persecution
• 5. Christianity Triumphant: The Theodosian Code on Christianity and Paganism
• Chapter 2: Anti-Judaism and Persecution of the Jews:
• 6. "Slay Them Not": Saint Augustine on the Jews
• 7. Anti-Jewish Legislation from the Visigothic Code
• 8. The Massacre in Mainz at the Beginning of the First Crusade
• 9. Blood Libel: The Murder of William of Norwich
• 10. A Papal Response: Gregory X against the Blood Libel
• 11. Jewish Woman in a Christian Miracle Story
• 12. King Otakar II Promises Royal Protection to the Jews in Bohemia and Austria
• 13. Well-Poisoning Accusations against the Jews
• 14. Massacre of the Jews in Strasbourg
• Chapter 3: Heresy and Inquisition:
• 15. Heresy in the Carolingian Word: Gottschalk of Orbais
• 16. Guibert of Nogent and the Heretics of Soissons
• 17. Hildegard of Bingen Preaches against Heresy
• 18. A Cathar Origin Story in the Testimony of Arnaud Sicre
• 19. Origins of the Waldensians
• 20. Canon of the Fourth Lateran Council Concerning Heresy
• 21. Inquisitor Bernard Gui at Work
• 22. Heretical Tricks: Inquisitor Nicholas Eymerich on the Art of Interrogation
• 23. Individual Resistance: Bernard Clergue
• 24. Cooperation and Resistance: Arnaud Sicre Infiltrates a Heretical Group
• 25. Papal Prohibitions against Beguines and Beghards at the Council of Vienne
• 26. The Fruits of Clerical Imagination: A Heretical Orgy
• 27. Persecutions of Waldensians in Late Medieval German Cities
• Chapter 4: External Others: Contacts, Intolerance, and the Making of Medieval Europe:
• 28. Carolingian Conquest of Saxony: Two Perspectives
• 29. Gerald of Wales on the Irish
• 30. Papal Blessing for Henry II's Conquest of Ireland
• 31. Keeping the Peace after the Conquest: Statutes of the Parliament of Dublin
• 32. Medieval Europe Old and New: Otto of Freising Describes Northern Italy and Hungary
• 33. Duke of Lithuania on the Teutonic Order
• Chapter 5: Interreligious Violence in the Mediterranean:
• 34. The Martyrs of Cordoba
• 35. Depictions of Muslims in The Song of Roland
• 36. Ibn Jubayr on Sicily under the Christian Rule
• 37. Interfaith Coexistence in Crusader Jerusalem
• 38. Coexistence and Exclusion in the Siete Partidas
• 39. Pope Innocent III Forbids the Venetian Merchants to Trade with the Muslims
• 40. Frederick II's Trade Agreement with Tunisia
• 41. Accusations against the Genoese Merchants in Service of the Mamluk Sultan
• Chapter 6: People on the Margins of Medieval Society:
• 42. Agobard of Lyon: On the Baptism of Jewish Slaves
• 43. Poverty as Piety: The Rule of Saint Francis
• 44. Critique of the Mendicant Friars: William of St-Amour's On the Dangers of the Final Days
• 45. Medieval Serfdom and Manumission
• 46. Punishments for Impregnating a Female Slave in Genoa
• 47. Discrimination against the Poor in Siena during the Famine of 1329
• 48. Living in Poverty in Florence
• 49. The World Turned Upside Down: Social Anxiety during and after the Plague
• 50. Wage Control after the Plague: Ordinance of the Laborers, 1349
• 51. Ordinances against the "Jews, Lepers, and Swine" and the Poor in Late Medieval London
• 52. Christine de Pizan on the Virtues of Toleration
• Chapter 7: Disease and Disability in Medieval Europe:
• 53. Disability and Charity in Piers Plowman
• 54. False Disability on the Streets of London
• 55. Rules of the Maison-Dieu in Pontoise
• 56. Physician Gilbert the Englishman on the Symptoms of Leprosy
• 57. Humbert of Romans Preaches to the Lepers
• 58. Ritual of Exclusion for a Leper
• 59. The Leper Plot against Christendom, 1321
• Chapter 8: From the Holy to the Sinful: Attitudes towards Women:
• 60. A Prostitute Saint: Saint Mary of Egypt
• 61. The Trial of Thiota, A False Prophetess
• 62. The Life of Christina of Markyate
• 63. Women in the Sicilian Laws of Frederick II
• 64. Women and the Ideals of Courtly Love
• 65. Religious Life of Margery Kempe
• 66. Marital Problems: An Innkeeper's Wife Leaves Him
• 67. Bernardino of Siena Preaches on Marriage
• Chapter 9: The Control of Sexuality:
• 68. Laws of Justinian Concerning Same-Sex Acts and Blasphemy
• 69. A Cross-Dressing Saint: Marina/Marinus
• 70. Punishments for Illicit Sexuality from a Medieval Penitential
• 71. Prostitution and Religious Reform in Prague
• 72. Illegal Prostitution in London
• 73. Confession of a Muslim Prostitute in Valencia
• 74. Confession of Arnaud of Verniolle
• 75. The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer
• 76. Testimony of Rolandina Roncaglia
• 77. Testimony of Eleanor/John Rykener

"The Intolerant Middle Ages is a collection of primary sources on the history of persecution. The goal of the book is to highlight instances of persecution and violence, as well as those relatively rare but significant episodes of toleration, toward an intentionally broad spectrum of people who existed at the margins of medieval society: heretics, Jews and Muslims, the poor, the displaced and disabled, women, and those deemed sexually deviant. The volume also presents a more geographically diverse Middle Ages by including sources from Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Mediterranean. Sources are organized in thematic chapters, covering everything from "Heresy and Inquisition" to "Disease and Disability." Each document is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by questions for discussion, making The Intolerant Middle Ages an excellent entrance into the lives and struggles of minorities in the medieval world."-- Provided by publisher.