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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1033: Heresy and Repression, I: Games with Names, or Naming the Heretics

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Department for the Study of Religions, Masaryk University, Brno
Organiser:David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
Moderator/Chair:Lucy Sackville, Exeter College, University of Oxford
Paper 1033-aThe Good Men: A Consideration of the Terminology for Cathars
(Language: English)
Claire Taylor, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Theology
Paper 1033-bGames with Names: Advances in, and Shortcomings of the Debate on the Invention of Heresy
(Language: English)
David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Theology
Paper 1033-cNaming and Describing the Waldensian Movement(s) from the Middle Ages to the Reformation
(Language: English)
Pekka Tolonen, Department of Comparative Religion / Turku Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (TUCEMEMS), University of Turku
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Theology
Abstract

This session takes up the idea of the construction/invention of heresy but without presuming that this is the whole story to be told about religious dissent in medieval Christianity. Speakers will inquire into ways heretics are named in medieval texts and/or in modern scholarship, and will discuss the identities - polemical or dissident, imposed or negotiated - behind these labels.