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IMC 2004: Sessions

Session 316: Thinking about Heresy

Monday 12 July 2004, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:Lucy Sackville, Exeter College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:Anne Hudson, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford
Paper 316-a'Perversam intelligentiam': Learning and Heresy in 13th-Century Polemic
(Language: English)
Lucy Sackville, Exeter College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life
Paper 316-bThe Production of Transcripts: Lollardy, Hegemony and Resistance
(Language: English)
John H. Arnold, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life
Paper 316-cCatharism and Waldensianism: Local or Not?, Singular or Plural?
(Language: English)
Pete Biller, Department of History, University of York
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Religious Life
Abstract

This session will explore some of the different ways in which heresy and heresiology have been written about and presented. It will take in the heresies of the Cathars, the Waldensians, and the Lollards, and will include examinations of various texts from the latter half of the Middle Ages, as well as the modern historiography of the subject.