2024
Describing “heretication” : comparing the accounts of the Cathar Consolamentum
SUBA, Katalin; Tomáš HAMPEJS and David ZBÍRALBasic information
Original name
Describing “heretication” : comparing the accounts of the Cathar Consolamentum
Authors
Edition
Leeds International Medieval Congress, 1-4 July 2024, University of Leeds, UK, 2024
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Presentations at conferences
Field of Study
60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
medieval heresy; Cathars; Consolamentum; ritual; building blocks; sequence analysis
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 8/2/2025 19:18, Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová
Abstract
In the original language
Our paper focused on the Cathar initiation ritual, the Consolamentum, comparing two main primary sources (which are recorded in handbooks used by dissident communities) - Ritual of Lyon, Ritual of Florence; and the most important polemical sources written against heresy or in inquisitorial records: i.e. the descriptions in Bernard Gui’s Practica inquisitionis, Anselm of Alessandria’s Tractatus de hereticis, the Opusculum Ermengaudi, and the Forma qualiter heretici hereticant hereticos suos. To facilite their analysis, we identified the intermediary concepts that are the building blocks of the ritual, revealing its internal logic and serving as the basis for sequence analysis. By using sequence analysis, we were able to measure the distance between the various descriptions, so that the common building blocks of the ritual could be outlined and variation more clearly expressed, identified and measured.
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