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Y304: The Church and Medieval Heresy c.1100–1437

Maintenance of church authority: Propaganda produced against heresy and punishments

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Recall questions on propaganda produced against heresy, individual clerical responses, preaching tours, Church councils and punishments.

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Who and when

What forms did anti-heresy propaganda take, and what were they for?

Key term

What did the Fourth Lateran Council require of bishops and secular rulers concerning heresy?

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What pastoral reform of 1215 had the widest effect on ordinary laypeople?

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  1. 1

    What forms did anti-heresy propaganda take, and what were they for?

    Model answer

    Sermons and preaching campaigns, moralising story collections for preachers, narrative histories justifying the Church's actions, and formal treatises that set out heretical arguments in order to refute them, which doubled as reference manuals for bishops and inquisitors who had to recognise particular sects.

  2. 2

    How did Bernard of Clairvaux use his Sermons on the Song of Songs against heresy?

    Model answer

    He devoted sermons in the series to the little foxes that spoil the vines, reading them as heretics who worked in secret, and set out their errors so that preachers could identify and refute them.

  3. 3

    What happened on Bernard of Clairvaux's preaching tour of the south in the 1140s?

    Model answer

    He travelled through the Toulouse region confronting the followers of Henry of Lausanne, found churches deserted and clergy despised, won immediate crowds by his personal reputation, but achieved no lasting change once he had left, which showed that the real problem was pastoral failure and that preaching would have to be made permanent and local to succeed.

  4. 4

    How did Caesarius of Heisterbach contribute to the campaign against heresy?

    Model answer

    His collection of miracle stories and moral tales supplied preachers with vivid anecdotes contrasting the punishment of heretics with the power of the sacraments, spreading a popular image of heresy to ordinary congregations.

  5. 5

    What doctrine did the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 define in its opening decree?

    Model answer

    It set out the creed of the Church and used the term transubstantiation for the change of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, defining the point that heretics most often denied.

  6. 6

    What did the Fourth Lateran Council require of bishops and secular rulers concerning heresy?

    Model answer

    Bishops were to visit their dioceses and search out heresy; convicted heretics were to be handed to the secular arm; and rulers who failed to purge their lands after warning could be excommunicated and their lands declared open to Catholics.

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