Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries, 2014
Playing the Heresy Card
The New Middle Ages Series

Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and political dominance in medieval games of power.

Introduction; Karen Bollermann, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Cary J. Nederman PART I: "RAZING" THE STAKES: PERSONAL TRIALS AND POLITICAL TRIBULATIONS 1. Standing in Abelard's Shadow: Gilbert of Poitiers, the 1148 Council of Rheims, and the Politics of Ideas; Karen Bollermann and Cary J. Nederman 2. Secular Politics and Academic Condemnation at Oxford, 1358-1411; Andrew E. Larsen 3. 'O Cursed Judas": Formal Heresy Accusations against Jan Hus; Thomas A. Fudge 4. Questions of Due Process and Conviction in the Trial of Joan of Arc; Henry Ansgar Kelly PART II: JOKER'S WILD: MISAPPROPRIATIONS OF ORTHODOXY AND MISREPRESENTATIONS OF HETERODOXY 5. Making a Heresiarch: Guido Terreni's Attack on Joachim of Fiore;Thomas Turley 6. The Papal Condemnation of Marsilius of Padua's Defensor Pacis : Its Preparation and Political Use; Frank Godthardt 7. Tarring Conciliarism with the Brush of Heresy: Juan de Torquemada's Summa de ecclesia ; Thomas M. Izbicki 8. Ockham, Almain, and the Idea of Heresy;Takashi Shogimen PART III: THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS: POWER POLITICS AND THE THREAT OF FORCE 9. Hints and Allegations: The Charge of Infidelity in Papal and Imperial Propaganda, 1239-1245; John Phillip Lomax 10. Autonomy, Dissent, and the Crusade against Fra Dolcino in 14th Century Valsesia; Jerry B. Pierce 11. Religious Dissent in Pre-Modern Islam: Political Usage of Heresy and Apostasy in Nizam al-Mulk and Ibn Taymiyya; Bettina Koch ?

Thomas A. Fudge, University of New England, Australia Frank Godthardt, Independent Researcher, Germany Henry Ansgar Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Bettina Koch, Virginia Tech University, USA Andrew E. Larsen, Marquette University, USA John Phillip Lomax, Ohio Northern University, USA Jerry B. Pierce, Penn State Hazleton University, USA Takashi Shogimen, University of Otago, New Zealand Thomas Turley, Santa Clara University, USA