Formula and Memory: Consolament Accounts in the FFF Register
and the Limits of Inquisitorial Standardization

k 2025

Formula and Memory: Consolament Accounts in the FFF Register and the Limits of Inquisitorial Standardization

SUBA, Katalin

Základní údaje

Originální název

Formula and Memory: Consolament Accounts in the FFF Register and the Limits of Inquisitorial Standardization

Autoři

SUBA, Katalin

Vydání

Portraits de l’hérésie : Dissidences religieuses médiévales vues par les sources polémiques et inquisitoriales / Portraits of Heresy: Medieval Religious Dissidence through the Lens of Polemical and Inquisitorial Sources, CIRCAED, 2025

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Francie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

consolamentum; kataři; iniciační rituál; Registr FFF

Klíčová slova anglicky

consolament; Cathars; initiation ritual; FFF Register

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 8. 7. 2025 12:19, Mgr. Jolana Navrátilová

Anotace

V originále

The so-called Register FFF (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Doat, vols. 22–24), which largely contains interrogations conducted by inquisitor Ferrier and his colleagues in 1243–1244, is particularly rich in descriptions of Cathar rituals. At first glance, these accounts appear formulaic, suggesting the use of a standardized framework. However, a closer examination of the consolament narratives reveals subtle but meaningful divergences. These variations concern not only minor details – additions, omissions, or shifts in emphasis – but also the presence, absence, and order of the basic building blocks of the ritual. It has been observed that the inquisitors likely employed a questionnaire modeled closely on the text we know from the Forma qualiter heretici hereticant suos, an anonymous mid-thirteenth-century description of the consolament, as close textual parallels between this text and the FFF testimonies can be observed. Yet, important questions remain: to what extent did inquisitors rigidly adhere to this template, and how much space was left for witnesses to enrich these formulaic descriptions with personal recollections? Can the diversity observed in these accounts be meaningfully correlated with the varying contexts of the initiations themselves? The paper also aims to shed light on what constituted, from the inquisitors’ perspective, a sufficiently complete or credible account of the ritual.

Návaznosti

101000442, interní kód MU

Název: Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe (Akronym: DISSINET)

Investor: Evropská unie, Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe, ERC (Excellent Science)

Citovat

SUBA, Katalin. Formula and Memory: Consolament Accounts in the FFF Register and the Limits of Inquisitorial Standardization. In Portraits de l’hérésie : Dissidences religieuses médiévales vues par les sources polémiques et inquisitoriales / Portraits of Heresy: Medieval Religious Dissidence through the Lens of Polemical and Inquisitorial Sources, CIRCAED. 2025.

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SUBA, Katalin. Formula and Memory: Consolament Accounts in the FFF Register and the Limits of Inquisitorial Standardization. In \textit{Portraits de l’hérésie : Dissidences religieuses médiévales vues par les sources polémiques et inquisitoriales / Portraits of Heresy: Medieval Religious Dissidence through the Lens of Polemical and Inquisitorial Sources, CIRCAED}. 2025.

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