The Participation of Women in Languedocian Catharism

Abels, Richard; Harrison, Ellen Z.

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“…93-112 has shown that Waldensian women were never equal to men even in the early days. (Abels and Harrison 1979), pp. 215-51 have demonstrated that the numbers of women involved in the Cathar movement and their roles therein have been much exaggerated, while (McSheffrey 1995) argues that Lollardy appealed much more to men than women.…”

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Theology, Martyrdom and Female Agency in Reformation Prague

Fudgé

2021

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The Hussite tradition historically has been excluded by the mainstream of Reformation historiography. Czech-language scholarship treating Hussite history have made few significant advances in the study of women and there has been limited attention given to the role women played in the Hussite tradition. The gap in Anglophone historiography is even more apparent. This essay considers Klára, a sixteenth-century Prague housekeeper, Marta, a learned figure contemporary with Klára who withstood civil and ecclesiastical officials, and Anna Marie Trejtlarová, an early seventeen-century educated laywoman. Their names are almost completely unknown outside Czech historiography. An examination of their lives and faith by means of the surviving primary sources and relevant historiography provides a window through which to observe the nature of religious reform in the Prague context in the world of Reformations. What is striking is the role of theology and the nature of female agency in the examination of these women. The essay endeavours to use these case studies to present a preliminary answer to the question: What do women tell us about Reformation? This study reveals the world of religious reform more fully by situating women and female agency in an active capacity.

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Theology, Martyrdom and Female Agency in Reformation Prague

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2021

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“…the Hare Krishna: Snow, Zurcher, and Ekland-Olson 1980). An examination of Cathar heresy by Abels and Harrison (1979) showed the importance of family ties in perpetuating heretical ideas and, although they considered a point in time when the heresy was well established, their research still suggested that the primary focus of this heresy was not to attract disconnected individuals. As a wealthy merchant, Waldes had many social ties.…”

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Poverty and Polygyny as Political Protest: The Waldensians and Mormons.

Emigh¹

1992

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This paper examines Waldensianism and Mormonism, two very different religious movements, separated by time, space, cultural, and economic conditions. The sources are a mixture of secondary and published primary sources, including church documents both in translation and the original language, and personal writings, such as diaries and letters. The treatment of these sources is not unusual, rather the contribution of this paper is a synthetic theoretical analysis of these movements in terms of the practical consequences of action. Both movements were coherent attempts to address contemporary social issues; neither was principally illogical nor irrational, nor comprised primarily of socially disconnected individuals. These movements were neither apolitical nor solely comprised of pure political action. Instead, both became political protest movements, in addition to being religious movements, because the symbolic content of the movement was interwoven with contemporary politics: the movements' ideological critiques implicated the larger political structure which attempted to prevent ideological change. These religious struggles were processes, becoming political movements because ideological change implied political action.

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“…28 Notable exceptions include: Abels and Harrison (1979);McSheffrey (1995), Arnold (1998b, pp. 183-205).…”

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Hearing Voices: Reapproaching Medieval Inquisition Records

Zbíral

Shaw

2022

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The records of medieval heresy inquisitions have been a subject of controversy ever since their rediscovery by historians. The detail they convey of specific social interactions has continued to inspire generations of scholars, while the coercive conditions of their production have placed strong caveats over their interpretation. This article offers a comprehensive review of the debate on the uses of inquisition records, encompassing scholarship across multiple languages and schools of thought. It also highlights some shortcomings in that debate, e.g., the overrepresentation of inquisitors’ choices; the claim that the use of torture led automatically to reproducing outlandish inquisitorial fears; and the idea that exceptional detail correlates with reliability. The article concludes with the proposal of the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) to use structured data within a new variety of quantitative history. This method, founded on the Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling approach that DISSINET has pioneered, is well-suited to addressing the biases of inquisition documents and opening them to scrutiny, thus providing a significant complement to close reading.

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The Participation of Women in Languedocian Catharism

Cited by 26 publications

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Theology, Martyrdom and Female Agency in Reformation Prague

Theology, Martyrdom and Female Agency in Reformation Prague

Poverty and Polygyny as Political Protest: The Waldensians and Mormons.

Hearing Voices: Reapproaching Medieval Inquisition Records

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