TY - JOUR
T1 - Archiepiscopal inquisitions in the middle Rhine
T2 - Urban anticlericalism and Waldensianism in late fourteenth-century Mainz
AU - Deane, Jennifer Kolpacoff
PY - 2006/7
Y1 - 2006/7
N2 - In the autumn of 1390, archiepiscopal inquisitors launched a sudden and unprecedented campaign against Waldensian heretics in the middle-Rhineland city of Mainz. By the end of 1393, at least thirty-nine men and women, both laity and clergy, had been burned at the stake in what would be one of the bloodiest and most complex inquisitions of late-medieval Germany. Based on analysis of hitherto overlooked or unknown source material, this article sets forth the context, course, and significance of the Mainz prosecutions, and challenges the standard interpretation that fourteenth-century Waldensianism was a rural phenomenon of little interest to German bishops.
AB - In the autumn of 1390, archiepiscopal inquisitors launched a sudden and unprecedented campaign against Waldensian heretics in the middle-Rhineland city of Mainz. By the end of 1393, at least thirty-nine men and women, both laity and clergy, had been burned at the stake in what would be one of the bloodiest and most complex inquisitions of late-medieval Germany. Based on analysis of hitherto overlooked or unknown source material, this article sets forth the context, course, and significance of the Mainz prosecutions, and challenges the standard interpretation that fourteenth-century Waldensianism was a rural phenomenon of little interest to German bishops.
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U2 - 10.1353/cat.2006.0175
DO - 10.1353/cat.2006.0175
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:61149322109
SN - 0008-8080
VL - 92
SP - 197
EP - 224
JO - Catholic Historical Review
JF - Catholic Historical Review
IS - 3
ER -