Power & Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy

Contents......Page 10
ONE: Introduction......Page 14
The Cathar Community......Page 18
Repression and Heresy......Page 23
Definitions and Sources......Page 26
Part I: The Politics of the Cathars......Page 32
TWO: The Murder of Parenzo......Page 34
Pope and Bishop in Orvieto......Page 36
Cathar and Papal Rector......Page 40
The Early Cathars......Page 48
THREE: Orvietan Society and the Early Popolo......Page 54
Social Structure and Family......Page 55
Clientage......Page 62
The Rise of the Popolo......Page 65
Early Efforts Against the Cathars......Page 68
FOUR: The Cathars......Page 71
Minor Elites......Page 72
Furriers and Artisans......Page 77
Florentine Cathars......Page 82
Part II: The Beliefs of Italian Cathars......Page 90
FIVE: Belief and Doubt......Page 92
Cathar Believers......Page 95
Skepticism and Doubt......Page 107
Doubt and Authority in Orvieto......Page 114
SIX: Sexed Bodies, Married Bodies, and Dead Bodies......Page 117
Creation and Sexual Difference......Page 119
Sexual Difference in Cathar Practice......Page 127
Marriage......Page 131
Bodies of the Dead......Page 136
Part III: Orthodoxy and Authority: The Cathars Become Heretics......Page 146
SEVEN: Inquisition, Repression, and Toleration......Page 148
Guelf Dominance and the Sentences of the Inquisitors......Page 150
Repression and Power......Page 156
Protest and Popular Toleration: The Tumult in Bologna......Page 162
EIGHT: Corpus Domini and the Creation of Adam and Eve......Page 169
Papal Curia and Corpus Domini......Page 172
Civic Authority......Page 177
Creation Retold......Page 179
APPENDIX A: The Statement of Andreas and Pietro......Page 190
APPENDIX B: A 1212 Marriage Case from the Bishop\'s Court......Page 194
Notes......Page 198
Works Cited......Page 256
B......Page 272
C......Page 273
G......Page 274
L......Page 275
O......Page 276
T......Page 277
Z......Page 278