Defining Heresy: Inquisition, Theology, and Papal Policy in the Time of Jacques Fournier (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 192) - Hardcover

Bueno, Irene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004304258 ISBN 13: 9789004304253

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2015

Synopsis

In Defining Heresy, Irene Bueno investigates the methods and discourses of anti-heretical repression in the first half of the fourteenth century, focusing on the figure of Jacques Fournier/Benedict XII (c.1284-1342), bishop-inquisitor, theologian, and, eventually, pope at Avignon.

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About the Author

Irene Bueno, PhD (2010), European University Institute, has been Marie Curie Fellow at the EHESS, Paris. She is the author of Le eresie medievali (Rome, 2013), was guest editor for Medieval Encounters (2015) and has published articles in various journals, including Speculum (2014).

Review

An "important and exciting book".
Claire Taylor, University of Nottingham. In: The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 1 (June 2017), pp. 126-129.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9004304258
• ISBN 13: 9789004304253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 371