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Seduced by the Theologians: Aeneas Sylvius and the Hussite Heretics

  • Thomas Fudge

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Abstract

The subject of heresy in the later Middle Ages is both simple and complex. It seemed simple in that it appeared to be everywhere and various manifestations seemed to share common denominators. The fourth Lateran Council (1215) concluded that while heretics had different faces their tails were joined together. The definition was true and false. Heresy was more than whatever the papacy denounced and in medieval writings heresy was described on several templates: intellectual deviance, reform, as challenge to social order, as civil disorder, as madness, disease, perversion and diabolism. In his historical writings dealing with Hussites, Aeneas Sylvius refers to each explanatory model.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHeresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
EditorsIan Hunter, John Christian Laursen, Cary J Nederman
Place of PublicationAldershot, United Kingdom
PublisherAshgate Publishing
Pages89-101
Edition1
ISBN (Print)0754654281, 9780754654285
Publication statusPublished - 2005

Publication series

NameCatholic Christendom, 1300-1700

Keywords

  • Christian Studies (incl Biblical Studies and Church History)
  • European History (excl British, Classical Greek and Roman)

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