Waldenses: Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval EuropeISBN: 978-0-631-15339-9
Hardcover
348 pages
February 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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List of Plates viii
List of Maps ix
Preface x
Introduction 1
Waldenses and the Catholic Church 2
The Changing Shape of the Sources 3
Some Questions Arising 5
Part I The First Phase
1 Before Heresy: Valdesius and the Poor Brethren at Lyon to 1184 11
2 Disobedient Preachers, 1184-c.1210 23
3 The Lombard ‘Poor in Spirit’, c.1205-1240 36
4 The Reconciliations with Rome, 1208-1212 49
Part II The Age of Inquisition, Thirteenth to fifteenth Centuries
Introduction: The impact of Organized Inquisitorial Activity 63
5 Waldenses in Occitan France, c.1220-1320 70
6 Germany and Eastern Europe 96
7 The Southwestern Alps 151
Part III The Alpine Waldenses Confront the Reformation
Introduction: The End of Heresy? 209
8 The Alpine Barbes and their Culture, c.1520-1530 211
9 The Encounters of 1530-1532 and their Outcomes 232
10 Calvin’s Geneva takes over in Piedmont, 1555-1565 264
Epilogue: The Waldenses as Persecuted Martyrs and the ‘True Church’ 285
Conclusions and Reflections 297
Bibliography 304
Index 319