Introduction: Historiography, Methodology, and Manuscripts: Robert E. Lerner and the Study of Late Medieval Heresy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Robert E. Lerner: A Portrait vii
4. List of Contributors xiv
5. Introduction: Historiography, Methodology, and Manuscripts: Robert E. Lerner and the Study of Late Medieval Heresy 1
6. 1. The Heresy of the Templars and the Dream of a French Inquisition 14
7. 2. The Dissemination of Barthélemy Sicard’s Postilla super Danielem 35
8. 3. Magic, Mysticism, and Heresy in the Early Fourteenth Century 56
9. 4. The Making of a Heretic: Pope John XXII’s Campaign against Louis of Bavaria 76
10. 5. Unusual Choices: The Unique Heresy of Limoux Negre 96
11. 6. Princely Poverty: Louis of Durazzo , Dynastic Politics, and Heresy in Fourteenth-Century Naples 116
12. 7. Disentangling Heretics, Jews, and Muslims: Imagining Infidels in Late Medieval Pastoral Manuals 137
13. 8. New Frontiers in the Late Medieval Reception of a Heretical Text: The Implications of Two New Latin Copies of Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls 157
14. 9. Disputing Prophetic Thought: The 1466 Questio quodlibetalis of Johannes of Dorsten 178
15. 10. Heretics, Allies, Exemplary Christians: Latin Views of Ethiopian Orthodox in the Late Middle Ages 195
16. 11. ‘By them in reality I meant the Jews’: Medieval Heretics in the Work and Life of Renate Riemeck 215
17. Afterword: Who or What Was a Heretic in the Late Middle Ages? 238
18. Robert E. Lerner: A Chronological Bibliography 250
19. Index 259