Detailed Information on Publication Record
2013
Forming Identity and Legitimizing Leadership: Why the 12th-13th Century Narratives about the History of Cathar Groups are Not Pure Polemical Fantasy
ZBÍRAL, DavidBasic information
Original name
Forming Identity and Legitimizing Leadership: Why the 12th-13th Century Narratives about the History of Cathar Groups are Not Pure Polemical Fantasy
Authors
ZBÍRAL, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
International Medieval Congress 2013 : Pleasure, Leeds, 1-4 July 2013, 2013
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/13:00066258
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
Catharism; Cathars; foundation myths; De heresi catharorum; Tractatus de hereticis
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 1/4/2014 12:42, Mgr. Vendula Hromádková
Abstract
V originále
Several texts from the 12th and 13th centuries (Ebervin of Steinfeld's letter to St. Bernard, 1143/1147; De heresi catharorum, 1190/1215; Charter of Niquinta, 1220s?; Tractatus de hereticis, 1250/1280) depict the beginnings of various dissident groups labeled Cathar by some modern scholars. These narratives have been studied mostly as either historical facts or polemical fictions. In this paper, I try to refine this sharp division. In the light of current discussions on the "invention of heresy", and in line with Peter Biller's article "Goodbye to Waldensianism?" (Past and Present, 192, 2006, 3-33), I argue that there are good reasons not to consider these narratives mono-vocal polemical fables, as Jean-Louis Biget has claimed following (and slightly simplifying) Gabriele Zanella's thoughts, but a poly-vocal narrative trying to make sense of Cathar groups also using their own narratives. This view deliberately counters the current deconstructionist trend, eye-opening in many ways but ideological when transformed into a dogma sweeping away what interpretive historical work should continue to be, i.e. the patient and open-minded reading of sources.
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