Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe : Documents in Translation

Introduction: Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe 1
I
\"THE HERETICS OF OLD\": THE DEFINITION OF
ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND
THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES 13
1 Tertullian: An Injunction against Heretics 29
2 St. Augustine: On Manichaeism 32
3 Theodoret: The Rise of Arianism 38
4 Theodoret: Arius\'s Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia 41
5 The Creed of Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381) 41
6 Compelle lntrare: The Coercion of Heretics in the
Theodosian Code, 438 42
7 st. Isidore of Seville: On the Church and the Sects 47
8 Alcuin: Against the Adoptionist Heresy of Felix 50
II
THE PROBLEM OF REFORM, DISSENT, AND HERESY
IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES 57
9 Paul of St. Pere de Chartres: Heretics at Orleans, 1022 66
10 Guibert of Nogent: Heretics at Soissons, 1114 72
11 William the Monk: The Debate with Henry of Le Mans 75
12 Otto of Freising: Arnold of Brescia in Rome, 1148-55 78
13 Peter Abelard at the Council of Soissons, 1121: The
Historia Calamitatum 80
14 St. Bernard to Pope Innocent II: Against Abelard, 1140 87
15 Everinus of Steinfeld: Letter to st. Bernard, 1143 91
16 St. Bernard: Sermon 65 on The Song of Songs, 1144 95
III
THE CA THARS 103
17 The Sermon of Cosmas the Priest against Bogomilism 108
18 A Standoff at Lombers, 1165 117
19 The Cathar Council at Saint-Felix-de-Caraman, 1167 121
20 Pierre des Vaux de Cernay: The Historia Alhfgensis 123
21 Rainier Sacconi: A Thirteenth-Century Inquisitor on
Catharism 125
22 Chroniclers and Cathars on Catharism: The Heretics of
Lombardy 133
IV
THE WALDENSIANS 139
23 Etienne de Bourbon: The Waldensians and Vernacular
Scripture 144
24 Walter Map: On the Waldensians, 1179 144
25 Valdes\'s Profession of Faith 147
26 David of Augsburg: On the Waldensians of Bavaria, 1270 149
27 The Passau Anonymous: On the Origins of Heresy and the
Sect of the Waldensians 150
V
THE WAY OF CARITAS: PREACHING, PENITENCE, AND
PASTORALISM 165
28 The Third Lateran Council, 1179: Heretics Are Anathema 168
29 Pope Lucius III: The Decretal Ad Abolendum, 1184 170
30 The Fourth Lateran Council, 1215: Credo and Confession,
Canons 1,3,21 173
31 Pope Innocent Ill: The Decretal Cum ex officii nostri,
1207 178
32 Burchard of Ursperg: On the New Orders 178
33 St. Antony\'s Sermon to the Fish 180
34 St. Thomas Aquinas: Whether Heretics Should Be
Tolerated 182
35 Pope Innocent III and Durand of Huesca, 1210 184
VI
THE WAY OF POTESTAS: CRUSADE AND
CRIMINAL SANCTIONS 189
36 Caesarius of Heisterbach: The Stake 193
37 The Council of Toulouse, 1229 194
38 Pope Gregory IX: The Decretal Ille humani generis, 1231 196
39 The Council of Tarragona, 1242 198
40 A Manual for Inquisitors at Carcasonne, 1248-49 200
41 The Liber Augustalis of Frederick II, 1231 207
42 The Schwabenspiegel: Concerning Heretics, 1235 209
43 Thirteenth-Century French Royal Legislation Against
Heretics 210
44 The English Statute De haeretico comburendo, 1401 212
VII
INTELLECTUAL POSITIONS CONDEMNED IN THE
THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES 217
45 Errors Condemned at the University of Paris, 1270 220
46 Faith and Philosophy in the Arts Faculty of Paris, 1272 221
47 The Condemnation of 219 Propositions at Paris, 1277 223
48 The Condemnation of Marsiglio of Padua and John of
Jandun, 1327 230
49 Petrarch: On Some Fourteenth-Century Latin Averroists,
1364 231
VIII
THE SPIRITUAL FRANCISCANS AND VOLUNTARY
POVERTY 235
50 St. Bonaventure: On dominium and usus 240
51 Ubertino da Casale: Violations of dominium and usus 243
52 Pope John XXII: The Decretal Gloriosam ecclesiam, 1318,
on the Errors of the Fraticelli 245
53 Pope John XXII: The Decretal Cum inter nonullas, 1323 247
54 James of the March: Against the Spirituals, ca. 1450 248
IX
PEASANT CA THARS IN THE ARIEGE IN THE
EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY 251
55 The Inquisitorial Register of Jacques Fournier 253
X
THE AGE OF WYCLIF AND HUS 265
56 John Wyclif: On Indulgences 267
57 Pope Gregory XI to the Masters of Oxford: On Wyclif 271
58 Wyclif\'s Response to Pope Urban VI 273
59 The Council of Constance, 1415: The Condemnation of
Wyclifism 274
60 The Lollard Conclusions, 1394 277
61 John Hus: On Simony 282
62 The Council of Constance, 1415: The Condemnation of
H us\'s Errors 286
63 Peter of Mladonovice: The Examination and Execution of
Hus 289
64 John of Brevicoxa: On the Church and Heresy 297
Sources and Acknowledgments 309