EUH 5934

Heresy in Premodern Europe

Spring 2008

Nina Caputo

216 Keene-Flint Hall

Office Hours: Tues. 3:00-5:00

& Thurs. 12:30-1:30, or by appointment

phone: 392-0271, ex 253

email: ncaputo@ufl.edu

Does medieval heresy have its own history? Much religious history of the middle ages views the categories of beliefs and practices deemed heretical as the products of willful deviance - whether doctrinal or behavioral - from the recognized and established order. In other words, much of the scholarship takes for granted the notion that heresy necessarily and intentionally deviates from dominant dogma and practice. In this class we will interrogate this assumption. What conditions- whether political, institutional, doctrinal, cultural, or national - are necessary for identification and disciplining of heretics? What constitutes heresy? How is the history of heresy constructed.?

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