Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Approaches and Evidence
- Part II Case Studies
- 6 Gnosticism
- 7 Manichaeism
- 8 Arianism and Other Christological Disputes
- 9 Pelagius
- 10 The Nestorian Controversy
- 11 Islam as a Christian Heresy
- 12 Iconoclasm
- 13 Accusations of Heresy between East and West
- 14 Bogomils
- 15 The Cathars
- 16 The Medieval Waldenses
- 17 Wyclif, Lollards and Popular Heresy
- 18 Hussite Revolution and Its Heresies
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page ii)
- References
13 - Accusations of Heresy between East and West
from Part II - Case Studies
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Approaches and Evidence
- Part II Case Studies
- 6 Gnosticism
- 7 Manichaeism
- 8 Arianism and Other Christological Disputes
- 9 Pelagius
- 10 The Nestorian Controversy
- 11 Islam as a Christian Heresy
- 12 Iconoclasm
- 13 Accusations of Heresy between East and West
- 14 Bogomils
- 15 The Cathars
- 16 The Medieval Waldenses
- 17 Wyclif, Lollards and Popular Heresy
- 18 Hussite Revolution and Its Heresies
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the reciprocal accusations of heresy between the Byzantine East and Latin West: such accusations were only sporadically made during the first millennium but increased exponentially from the twelfth century onwards on the Byzantine side and, to a lesser extent, from the thirteenth century on the Latin side (where they were generally subsumed under the accusation of schism or ‘disobedience’). The notions of ‘heretic’ and ‘schismatic’, which ought to be distinct and precisely defined according to canon law, increasingly overlapped within the polemical discourse and were collectively applied to the opposite population, in a process of construction of religious otherness.
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