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Creating fear: The role of emotions in Geoffrey of Auxerre´s anti-heretical polemic.

NOUTSOU, Stamatia

Základní údaje

Originální název

Creating fear: The role of emotions in Geoffrey of Auxerre´s anti-heretical polemic.

Vydání

Fear and Loathing in the Earthly City – Negative Emotions in the Medieval and Early Modern Period c. 1100-17000, 2018

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Dánsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

feelings, anti-heresy, Geoffrey of Auxerre
Změněno: 20. 1. 2019 21:58, Mgr. Michaela Ondrašinová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The Cistercian monks, who engaged themselves in the Church´s fight against heresy in the 12th century, shaped in their polemical texts an atmosphere of widespread fear. By following specific rhetorical patterns, Cistercian authors, such as Geoffrey of Auxerre, a significant but nevertheless neglected figure of the ant-heretical struggle, created the image that the Church and the social order were under attack due to the religious dissidents (Kienzle: 2001). The creation of this atmosphere of danger and fear, which would legitimize the Church´s response against heresy, has been thoroughly discussed by modern historians, who saw in the Church´s reaction against the heretics, a struggle to attain more power (Moore:1987). Thus, the use of the emotions in the polemical texts is linked to political matters. In this paper, I will focus on Geoffrey´s polemical writings in order to shed light on this link. The main questions, that will be addressed, are how Geoffrey created, by applying rhetorics of fear, a serious enemy and how this fear could also play a preventive and productive power, that kept Christians away from heresy and made them obedient to the Church.