| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : burning bodies and medieval human communal identity -- Our God is like a consuming fire : burning bodies and Christian community -- Fields and bodies : toleration and threat in a shared space -- The beginning at Orleans in 1022 : heretics and hellfire -- Likeness in difference : three burnings in the twelfth-century Rhineland -- Like rejoices in like : recognition and differentiation in descriptions of heresy -- Heresy, sex, and reading in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries -- Leaping from the flames : love, redemption, and holy war in the Albigensian Crusade -- Conclusion : the uses of exclusion and fear for a community of love. |
| Summary |
"Interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics, tracing them from the earliest instances in the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Flesh (Theology) -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Fire -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Fire -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Christian heretics -- Europe -- History.
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Christian heretics. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500.
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Church history. |
| Chronological Term |
600-1500 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Church history.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barbezat, Michael D. Burning bodies. 1st edition. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501716805 (DLC) 2018017278 |
| ISBN |
9781501716829 (electronic book) |
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1501716824 (electronic book) |
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9781501716812 (electronic book) |
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1501716816 (electronic book) |
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9781501716805 (hardcover) |
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