Preachers by Night: The Waldensian Barbes (15th-16th Centuries)

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15454-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 118, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

First inspired by Vaudes in around 1170, the Waldensians formed a religious dissent which survived into the sixteenth century. Respecting the Gospel to the letter, their rejection of oaths, falsehood, the death penalty, purgatory and the intercession of saints marginalized them in the society of the times. Their survival depended on their will to adapt. Organisation became necessary to withstand the pressures of time and space as their community extended across Europe (France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Bohemia, Poland). Preachers, called “barbes” in the diaspora’s Romance wing, embodied the ideal lifestyle and unity of their community. This is the story and history of those preachers – celibate, arduous, pious men whose itinerant mission it was to maintain a clandestine but vehement faith.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Audisio, Gabriel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Andere und Moderne Christliche Glaubensgemeinschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword

Introduction: The Way Ahead.

1. The Dawn of a Sect
2. The Poor of Christ
3. “Die Brüder”
4. The Time of the Barbes
5. A Company
6. The Barbes’ Way of Life
7. The Mission
8. When the Waldensians Spoke of the Barbes
9. Twilight
10. And the Barbes Were No More.

Conclusion: The End of the Path?

Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Places
Index of Authors Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriel Audisio, agrégé de l’Université (1969), doctor in History (1984), is Emeritus professor of Early Modern History at the University of Provence. Specialised in religious and cultural history, he has published in French, English, German and Italian, including The waldensian Dissent c. 1170-c. 1570 (Cambridge University Press, 1999).