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The Waldensian dissent : persecution and survival, c. 1170-c. 1570
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The Waldensian dissent : persecution and survival, c. 1170-c. 1570

Author: Gabriel Audisio
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series: Cambridge medieval textbooks.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The Poor of Lyons, called by their detractors 'Waldensians' after their founder Waldo or Vaudes, first emerged around 1170. Like other groups of the period, they formed a religious community founded on the strict observance of the gospel, preaching and poverty. Defying Church rulings stating that the laity had no right to preach and applying the scriptures to the letter, in particular denying the existence of  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Gabriel Audisio
ISBN: 0521550297 9780521550291 0521559847 9780521559843
OCLC Number: 40298408
Language Note: Translated from the French.
Description: xiv, 234 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 1170-1215: decisive and purposive origins; 2. The thirteenth century: the need to adapt; 3. The fourteenth century: the challenge of believing differently; 4. The fifteenth century: the risks of longevity; 5. The constraints of a life in hiding; 6. The need to organise; 7. A culture of their own: the written and the spoken word; 8. The sixteenth century: the end as a way forward?; 9. Epilogue: the Waldensian Church; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Series Title: Cambridge medieval textbooks.
Other Titles: Vaudois.
Responsibility: Gabriel Audisio ; translated by Claire Davison.
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A short 1999 history of the Waldensians, a twelfth-century heretical movement in France, and of its persistence until the sixteenth century.  Read more...

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'This text should be welcomed by all those historians ... who have up to now lacked a comprehensive and worthwhile text for the study of Waldensians.' Caterina Bruschi, Boekbeoordelingen 'Audisio has Read more...

 
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schema:reviewBody""The Poor of Lyons, called by their detractors 'Waldensians' after their founder Waldo or Vaudes, first emerged around 1170. Like other groups of the period, they formed a religious community founded on the strict observance of the gospel, preaching and poverty. Defying Church rulings stating that the laity had no right to preach and applying the scriptures to the letter, in particular denying the existence of purgatory and refusing to take oaths, they were condemned as heretics. The community was forced underground and dispersed widely; but through a unique, organised body of intinerant preachers they nevertheless managed to maintain links throughout the whole of Europe." "This book is less a history of Waldensianism than an account of those men and women who, remaining true to an ideal, lived in anxiety and under suspicion, often fearful and sometimes in blind terror. Proclaiming their faith timidly, yet with an astounding - sometimes dogged - tenacity, they hold up a mirror to us today."--Jacket."
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