A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition Quotes

“Indeed, John was particularly infuriated by Eckhart’s public preaching of these ideas to simple people or “the uneducated crowd” and held him accountable for “many dogmatic pronouncements that clouded the true faith in the hearts of many.”
― Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition

“In March 1329, he issued the bull In agro dominico (In the Field of the Lord), condemning fifteen articles from Meister Eckhart’s work as heretical; the additional eleven were characterized as “evil-sounding, rash, and suspect of heresy.”
― Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition

“bread-for-God’ sisters . . . and who call themselves children, or brothers and sisters, of the Free Spirit and of voluntary poverty.”
― Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition

“Philip manipulated the construct of “heresy” not only as a powerful political weapon but also for what historians have argued were explicitly financial purposes.”
― Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition

“Innocent had moved almost immediately upon his election against the “defenders, receivers, fautors and believers of heretics”; in 1199, he issued the bull Vergentis in senium (Inclining toward Decay) specifically aimed at secular and sacral authorities in the northern Italian city of Viterbo, in which he stripped from those found guilty all civic or clerical rights of office as well as the right to inherit or to leave an inheritance to children.”
― Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition

“Throughout the following chapters, we will consider how medieval gender assumptions were wielded and challenged over time, noting in particular key fourteenth- and fifteenth-century anxieties about women and mystical authority.”
― Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition

“Requiring vast economic resources and decades to construct, urban cathedrals represented a joining—not only of heaven and earth in a sacred architectural space, but also of the local community and Christendom, linked through the commanding ecclesiastical authority of bishops, canons, clergy, and monks.”
― Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition