Die Erfindung der Katharer
Konstruktion einer Haresie in Mittelalter und Moderne
by Markus Krumm
Paperback (Published)
(April 2023)
ISBN: 9783795437978
Price: $40.00
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The Cathars: not the largest heretical movement of the Middle Ages, but a modern invention? Richly illustrated and supplemented by the translations of central sources, the book introduces into their complex history the idea that these famous heretics were constructed as an enemy image in the High Middle Ages and then became a myth in modern times.
Die Katharer gelten als die groate Ketzerbewegung des Mittelalters, eine Art Gegenkirche, letztlich zerstort durch Kreuzfahrer und Inquisitoren. Dieses traditionelle Bild von den beruhmten Haretikern ist im zuruckliegenden Vierteljahrhundert von der internationalen Forschung grundlegend in Zweifel gezogen worden. Statt um ein historisches Massenphanomen scheint es sich bei den Katharern vielmehr um einen modernen Mythos zu handeln, im Kern basierend auf einem im Hochmittelalter fur den Haresiekampf geschaffenen Feindbild, ausgebaut von Historikern im 19. Jahrhundert und inzwischen eng verknupft mit der regionalen Identitat des heutigen Sudfrankreich, das als “Katharerland” auch touristisch vermarktet wird. Reich bebildert und erganzt durch die Ubersetzungen zentraler Quellen fuhrt der Band erstmals in die komplexe Geschichte dieser “Erfindung” ein.
- By (author) Markus Krumm
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