Religious Persecution and Heretical Identities in Medieval Europe

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Eugene Smelyansky

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of California-Irvine

Presider Name

Mark Gregory Pegg

Presider Affiliation

Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Paper Title 1

Violence and the Construction of the Heretical Identity in the Cistercian Anti-Heretical Discourse

Presenter 1 Name

Stamatia Noutsou

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Masarykova Univ.

Paper Title 2

Shaping Behavior as Text: A Thirteenth-Century Inquisitors' Manual and the Persecution of Heresy in Languedoc

Presenter 2 Name

Melissa Bruninga-Matteau

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Martin Methodist College

Paper Title 3

Heretics, Informants, Priests: Conversion, Information, and Persecution of Heresy, 1391-1403

Presenter 3 Name

Eugene Smelyansky

Start Date

16-5-2015 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1245

Description

The session examines formation and negotiation of heretical identities in the process of religious persecution in medieval Europe over the course of two centuries (13th-14th). This topic is approached from a number of perspectives, from an analysis of Cistercian attitudes towards violent persecution of heretics; to way thirteenth-century inquisitorial manuals understood heresy; to the formation of networks of inquisitors, bishops, informants, and former heretics that allowed for an intensified persecution of Waldensians in the German-speaking lands at the end of the fourteenth century.

Eugene Smelyansky