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The first edition, translation, and commentary on previously unknown medieval sermons written to defend the Catholic religion against heresy in the early thirteenth century, set against the historical backdrop of the crusade against Albigensian heretics in south-western France and during campaigns to push back heresy in northern France.
Sommario
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Sermons against heresy preached in 1226 and 1231 by Philip the Chancellor, Eudes of Châteauroux
- The crusades and the fight against heresy
- The crusade of 1226 against the Albigensians
- Preaching against heresy in northern France at the beginning of the 1230s
- Manuscript texts and live sermons
- Manuscripts
- Principles of edition and translation
- Edition and Translation
- 1: Philip the Chancellor, Sermon preached to scholars at Paris on 18 January 1226
- 2: Philip the Chancellor, Sermon preached to scholars at Paris on 25 January 1226
- 3: Philip the Chancellor, Sermon preached to scholars at Paris on 2 February 1226
- 4: Philip the Chancellor, Sermon preached in front of King Louis VIII and crusaders at Bourges on 17 May 1226
- 5: Philip the Chancellor, Sermon preached at St. Victor in Paris during a procession in aid of King Louis VIII's siege of Avignon on 21 August 1226
- 6: Eudes of Châteauroux, Sermon preached for the recruitment of crusaders for the Albigensian Crusade of 1226 between February and September 1226
- 7: Philip the Chancellor, Sermon preached at Paris on 20 March 1231 probably to scholars of the university
- 8: Philip the Chancellor, Sermon preached at the Synod of Laon on 20 May 1231
- 9: Philip the Chancellor, Sermon preached to laypeople at Bruyères-et-Montbérault on 21 May 1231
- Bibliography
- Indices
Info autore
Nicole Bériou was Professor of Medieval History at Lyon and Paris (EPHE) until 2014. During the years 2011-2014, she was also the Director of the
Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (CNRS) in Paris. Her thesis on preaching in thirteenth century Paris was awarded the
Premier prix Gobert in 2000. As a specialist in the history of religion, culture, and communication, her main contributions deal with preaching. Since 2004 she has also been a series editor of the
Bibliothèque d'histoire culturelle du Moyen Âge in collaboration with Franco Morenzoni, and since 2009, the general editor of the
Revue Mabillon.
Christoph T. Maier has taught medieval history at universities in Britain and Switzerland. He is presently
Privatdozent at the History Department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has published two monographs as well as numerous articles on crusade sermons and preaching, crusade liturgy, gender aspects of the crusades and crusade historiography, military orders, saints' cults, and late medieval urban history ranging from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries. He is the series editor of
Crusades Subsidia.
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The first edition, translation, and commentary on previously unknown medieval sermons written to defend the Catholic religion against heresy in the early thirteenth century, set against the historical backdrop of the crusade against Albigensian heretics in south-western France and during campaigns to push back heresy in northern France.
