A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-41088-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 103, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1081 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

The medieval dissenters known as ‘Waldenses’, named after their first founder, Valdes of Lyons, have long attracted careful scholarly study, especially from specialists writing in Italian, French and German. Waldenses were found across continental Europe, from Aragon to the Baltic and East-Central Europe. They were long-lived, resilient, and diverse. They lived in a special relationship with the prevailing Catholic culture, making use of the Church’s services but challenging its claims.

Many Waldenses are known mostly, or only, because of the punitive measures taken by inquisitors and the Church hierarchy against them. This volume brings for the first time a wide-ranging, multi-authored interpretation of the medieval Waldenses to an English-language readership, across Europe and over the four centuries until the Reformation.

Contributors: Marina Benedetti, Peter Biller, Luciana Borghi Cedrini, Euan Cameron, Jacques Chiffoleau, Albert de Lange, Andrea Giraudo, Franck Mercier, Grado Giovanni Merlo, Georg Modestin, Martine Ostorero, Damian J. Smith, Claire Taylor, and Kathrin Utz Tremp.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benedetti, Marina

Cameron, Euan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche und christlich motivierte Bewegungen und Sekten
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden

Über Autor(innen)

Marina Benedetti, Università degli Studi, Milan (Italy) is Full Professor in the History of Christianity. She is the author of the monograph Il 'santo bottino'. Circolazione di manoscritti valdesi nell'Europa del Seicento (2007) and the editor of Valdesi medievali. Bilanci e prospettive di ricercar (2009).

Euan Cameron is Professor of Reformation Church History in Union Theological Seminary, New York. On the Waldenses he has written The Reformation of the Heretics (1984) and Waldenses (2000). His other books address the Reformation, superstition, and the Bible.