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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      September 1999
      ISBN:
      9781139163934
      9780521550291
      9780521559843
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139163934
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 252 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.359kg, 252 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
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    The Poor of Lyons, whom their detractors called 'Waldensians' - after the name of their founder Waldo (or Vaudès) - first emerged around 1170 and formed in common with other groups of the period a sect which embraced evangelism, prophecy and poverty. By challenging their prohibition by the lay clergy, and by following the Scripture to the last letter, they suffered excommunication and were condemned as heretics. Forced underground and dispersed widely, they nevertheless managed to maintain contact across Europe, through an established network of itinerant preachers, in Provence and Dauphiné, Calabria and Piedmont, Austria and Bohemia, Pomerania, Brandenburg, Silesia and beyond. The Poor of Lyons constituted the only medieval heresy to have survived to the dawn of the so-called 'modern' period. Their tale of simple devotion mixed with a fierce tenacity serves to illuminate aspects of religious belief that have persisted to the present day. This book was first published in 1999.

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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 Source: Boekbeoordelingen

    ‘Audisio has written a thoroughly competent introduction to the movement.’

    Source: The Heythrop Journal

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