Burning bodies : communities, eschatology, and the punishment of heresy in the Middle Ages /
"Interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics, tracing them from the earliest instances in the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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| Summary: | "Interrogates the ideas that the authors of historical and theological texts in the medieval West associated with the burning alive of Christian heretics, tracing them from the earliest instances in the eleventh century until the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth century"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501716805 1501716808 |