Carol Lansing
Autor/a de Power & Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy
Obres de Carol Lansing
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1951
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Educació
- University of Michigan
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 4
- Membres
- 104
- Popularitat
- #184,481
- Valoració
- 3.0
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 23
INTRODUCTION
IN THE ITALIAN TOWN of Orvieto at the end of the twelfth century, debate
over the sacred and its relation to authority centered on whether a corpse was
rotting. Cathar missionaries had enjoyed considerable success among
Orvietans. Catharism was a dualist faith that spread in southern France and Italy
in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The papacy considered it heretical
because the Cathars attacked Catholic teachings and the authority of the
clergy: the missionaries in Orvieto preached that no aspect of the material
world or the human body can be sacred. In response, Pope Innocent III sent
a young Roman named Pietro Parenzo to serve as papal rector and to combat
heresy in the town. When Parenzo was abducted and murdered, the bishop
blamed the Cathars, installed Parenzo's body in the cathedral, and rejoiced
that the corpse, instead of decaying, gave off a sweet perfume and performed
miracles. One day in 1200, as pilgrims moved towards Parenzo's tomb in the
cathedral, someone hurled a piece of rotten meat at the procession from an
upstairs window of a nearby house. The gesture scoffed at Parenzo, the
bishop, and the pilgrims, a vivid denial of the bishop's claims for the purity
and sanctity of Parenzo's corpse...… (més)