The Medieval Waldenses

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16 - The Medieval Waldenses

from Part II - Case Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2025

Pete Biller

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Richard Flower

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The Waldensians began inside the church in the 1170s, were excommunicated, went underground and survived into the sixteenth century. In our efforts to get at their past reality, how far can we penetrate the texts about them produced in the Middle Ages by a persecuting church, during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation by polemicists and in modern times by academics modelling them according to the latest intellectual fashions?

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Waldenses inquisition historiography persecution Poor of Lyon

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Information: The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy , pp. 323 - 344

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108556620.019 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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