Medieval Heresies - AHSV11066

• Title: Erasmus Medieval Heresies
• Guaranteed by: Institute of General History (21-USD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Cyril Mrázek
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Cyril Mrázek
• Incompatibility : AHSV11069, AHSV11070
• Is incompatible with: AHSV11070, AHSV11069

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Cyril Mrázek (07.11.2023)

This class is primarily focused on the historical development of “heretical movements” in the cultural environment of western medieval European orthodoxy from its beginnings up to the reformation movements of the 16th century. The aim of the course is to introduce various subversive movements of Christian Europe and their interpretation in the context of religious nonconformity and heterodoxy at large. Integral part of the class will be a discussion over various examples from both historical sources and secondary literature.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Cyril Mrázek (07.11.2023)

The goal would be to introduce different concepts of minority identities, gender, historical narration, and ideology to the main subject. The semester would be concluded with an excursion around the places of local collective memory of the Hussite movement in the public space.

Descriptors

Last update: Mgr. Cyril Mrázek (07.11.2023)

The class would take place weekly in the form of 90 min. seminar with discussion. The content is designed to be accessible not only for students of history but also philosophy, theology, and all humanities in the broad European and/or religious context.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Cyril Mrázek (07.11.2023)

Exam (4 ECTs)

For the oral interview, students must read and prepare a list of at least two books and two articles appropriate for at least two of the particular subjects of the class. That means a minimum of four titles.

Participation credit (2 ECTs)

Active participation in the discussions over the mandatory texts.

Exam and active participation (6 ECTs)

During the semester and in addition to the requirements for the exam, student will prepare an exposé for two particular subjects and mandatory texts.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Cyril Mrázek (07.11.2023)

Grundmann, Herbert, Steven Rowan and Robert E. Lerner. Religious movements in the Middle Ages: the historical links between heresy, the Mendicant Orders, and the women's religious movement in the twelfth and thirteenth century, with the historical foundations of German mysticism. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.

Lambert, Malcolm. Medieval heresy : popular movements from the Gregorian reform to the Reformation. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2010.

Persecution

Deane, Jennifer Kolpacoff. A history of medieval heresy and inquisition. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010,

Waldensians

Shahar, Shulamith. Women in a medieval heretical sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2001.

Audisio, Gabriel and Claire Davison. The Waldensian dissent: persecution and survival, c. 1170-c. 1570. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Cathars

Lambert, Malcolm. The Cathars. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.

Sennis, Antonio. Cathars in question. York: York medieval press, 2016.

Barber, Malcolm. The Cathars: dualist heretics in Languedoc in the high middle ages. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000,

McGlynn, Sean. Kill them all: Cathars and carnage in the Albigensian Crusade. Stroud: The History Press, 2015.

Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy. Montaillou, village occitan de 1294 à 1324. Paris: Gallimard, 2013.

Free Spirit

Lerner, Robert E. The heresy of the free spirit in the thirteenth century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1964.

Schmidt, Jean-Claude. Mort d`une hérésie, l`eglise et les clercs face aux béguines et aux béghards du Rhin supérieur du XIVe siècle. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.

Beguines

McDonnell, Ernst W. The Beguines and Beghards in medieval culture, with special emphasis on the Belgian scene. New York, Octagon Books, 1969.

Simons, Walter. Cities of ladies: Beguine communities in the medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Ziegler, Joanna E. Sculpture of compassion : the Pietà and the Beguines in the southern Low Countries, c.1300-c.1600. Bruxelles: Institut historique belge de Rome, 1992.

Miller, Tanya Stabler. The Beguines of medieval Paris: gender, patronage, and spiritual authority. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014

Galuszka, Tomasz, Paweł Kras, S. C. Rowell, Robert E. Lerner a Letha Bohringer. The Beguines of medieval Świdnica: the interrogation of the "Daughters of Odelindis" in 1332. Boydell & Brewer, 2022

Nonconformists

Ginzburg, Carlo. Il formaggio e i vermi: il cosmo di un mugnaio del '500. Torino: Einaudi, 1976.

Ginzburg, Carlo. I benandanti: stregoneria e culti agrari tra Cinquecento e Seicento. Torino: Einaudi, 2002.

Dinzelbacher, Peter. Heilige oder Hexen?: Schicksale aufflliger Frauen in Mittelalter und Frhneuzeit. München: Artemis und Winkler, 1995.

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch. New York, Autonomedia. 2014.

Hussites

Lahey, Stephen E. The Hussites. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2019.

Van Dussen, Michael and Pavel Soukup. A companion to the Hussites. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Royal, Susan and Anthony. Milton. Lollards in the English Reformation: history, radicalism, and John Foxe. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2020.

Lutton, Robert. Lollardy and orthodox religion in pre-Reformation England: reconstructing piety. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 2006.

Mystic

Mojsisch, Burkhard. and Orrin F. Summerell. Meister Eckhart analogy, univocity, and unity. Amsterdam: B.R. Grüner, 2001

Engen, John H Van. Sisters and brothers of the common life: the devotio moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

De Certeau, Michel, Luce Giard and Michael B. Smith. The Mystic Fable, Volume One: The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Cyril Mrázek (07.11.2023)

For the successful completion of this class active participation would be demanded with maximum of tree abstentions. The main form of the exam would be an oral interview with a list of appropriate literature prepared by the student. The form of the exam and participation could be amended on the basis of individual agreement.