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@proceedings{975875,
author = {Zbíral, David},
booktitle = {International Medieval Congress 2011: Poor... Rich},
keywords = {apostolic poverty; christianity; economy; money},
language = {eng},
title = {"Poor of Christ" Not So Poor: A Paradox of the Cathar Heresy},
year = {2011}
}
TY - CONF
ID - 975875
AU - Zbíral, David
PY - 2011
TI - "Poor of Christ" Not So Poor: A Paradox of the Cathar Heresy
KW - apostolic poverty
KW - christianity
KW - economy
KW - money
N2 - This paper explores the relationship between the ideal and the practice of voluntary poverty among dissenting preachers in the 12th to 14th-century Europe who called themselves “Good Men” and were labeled as “Cathars” or simply “heretics”. I argue that the “Good Men” used the ideal of poverty and of the “apostolic life” in their self-presentation narratives but at the same time, quite paradoxically, they had very progressive attitudes to money and profit. Indeed, they practiced a specific “religious” moneymaking, sometimes in quite assertive ways. To explain this paradox, I refer to the developmental theory presented by Lester K. Little in his Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe (London: Paul Elek, 1978).
ER -
ZBÍRAL, David. ''Poor of Christ'' Not So Poor: A Paradox of the Cathar Heresy. In \textit{International Medieval Congress 2011: Poor... Rich}. 2011.
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