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1、ThewaragainstheresyinmedievalEurope*BlackwellPublishingLtdOxford,UKHISRHistoricalResearch0950-3471©InstituteofHistoricalResearch2007>XXXOriginalArticlesThewaragainstheresyinmedievalEuropeR.I.MooreNewcastleUniversityAbstractBoththelevelofclericalanxietyaboutpopularheresyinthecenturyors
2、oafter1140andthebreadthandvigourofmeasuresadoptedtosuppressit,initiallyintheLanguedoc,weredisproportionatetoitsextent,coherenceandsupport.Thisarticlethereforeseeksanalternativeexplanationforthelaunchingofthe‘waragainstheresy’inthirteenth-centuryEurope,andfindsitprimarilyinthedeveloping
3、self-consciousnessofthenewadministrativeeliteproducedbythedemographicandculturaltransformationofEuropeintheeleventhcentury.BytheendofthetwelfthcenturythebeliefthatheresyconstitutednotonlyatheoreticalbutarealandpresentdangertothefaithhadinitselfbecomeatestofCatholicorthodoxy.Thegrowing
4、fearofheresywasexpressedinabatteryofmeasuresforitsdetectionandsuppression,butnotassuagedbythem.Warwasheldtobepermissibleagainsthereticsasagainstunbelievers.TheAlbigensiancrusade,launchedagainstthecountyofToulousein1209,wasonlythefirst,althoughthemostnotorious,bloodyandconsequential,oft
5、hewarsagainstheresy–intheliteralsenseratherthanthemetaphoricaloneofthetitleofthisarticle–whichmarkedthehistoryofthethirteenthcentury,andwhoseessentiallypoliticalcharacterbecameevermoreovert.Inprinciple,responsibilityfortheprosecutionofheresybelongedtothebishopsintheirdioceses,buttheyw
6、ereincreasinglyurgedtoactionbykingsandpopes,whoin1184instructedthemtomakeregularinquisitionforhereticsandtheirsupportersonpainofthemselvesbeingidentifiedassuch.Whenthatfailedtoyieldtheexpectedresults,inquisitionforheresywasincreasinglytakenoutofthehandsofthebishops,andentrustedtospecia
7、lagentsdirectlyarmedbypapalauthoritywithsweepingpowerstoenterandinterrogatewholecommunities,andtoimposeuponthosewhomthey*ThisarticleisaversionoftheCreightonLecturedeliveredintheUniversityofLondonon1Nov.2004,basedontheHenryCharlesLeaMemorialLecturedeliveredattheUniversityofPennsylvania
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