Europe's inner demons

CHAPTER THREE: THE DEMONIZATION OF MEDIEVAL HERETICS (2)

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1 Text in Chronica Albrici, p. 931.

2 For bibliography see G. Gonnet and A. Hugon, Bibliografia Valdese, Torre Pellice, 1953 (Bollettino della Società di Studi Valdesi, No. 93) and G. Gonnet, Sulle fonti del Valdismo medioevale, in Protestantesimo, vol. XII, Rome, 1957, pp. 17–32. The beginnings of the movement are described in C. Thouzellier, Catharisme et Valécisme en Languedoc à la fin du xii^e siècle, Paris, 1966, and K.-V. Selge, Die ersten Waldenser

, 2 vols., Berlin, 1967. As a general survey the fourth edition of E. Comba, Storia dei Valdesi, Torre Pellice and Turin, 1950, remains valuable. A fine collection of texts on this as on other movements, in English translation, is contained in: W. L. Wakefield and A. P. Evans, Heresies of the high middle ages, New York and London, 1969.

3 Matthew 19:21.

4 Tractatus de haeresi Pauperum de Lugdutto, printed without author’s name in E. Martène and U. Durand, Thesaurus anecdotorum, vol. V, Paris, 1727. The relevant passages are at cols. 1779-80, 1782.

5 Cf K. Schrödl, Passavia sacra, Passau, 1879, pp. 242-3; and H. Haupt, “Waldensertum und Inquisition im sudöstlichen Deutschland bis zur Mitte des 14ten Jahrhunderts”, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, vol. I, Freiburg in Breisgau, 1890, pp. 306 seq. and 322-8; E. Tomek, Kirchen-geschichte Oesterreichs, Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich, 1935, p. 215; P. P. Bernard, “Heresy in fourteenth century Austria”, in Medievalia et Humanistica

, vol. X, Boulder, Colorado, 1956, pp. 50 seq.

6 Anonymi auctoris brevis narratio...., in H. Pez, Scriptores rerum Austriacarum, vol. II, cols. 533-6. An expanded version is in Annales Matseenses, in MGSS vol. IX, pp. 825-6.

7 Annales Matseenses, loc. cit

8 Cf. B. Dudík, Iter Romanum, vol. II, Vienna, 1855, pp. 136-41, which includes the text of the bull.

9 John of Winterthur, Chronica, in MGSS, new series, vol. III, pp. 144-5.

10 Gesta archiepiscoporum Magdeburgensium, in MGSS vol. XIV, p. 434.

11 John of Winterthur, op. cit.

, p. 151.

12 Cf. H. Haupt, “Husitische Propaganda in Deutschland”, in Historisches Taschenbuch, 6th series, 7th year, Leipzig, 1888, p. 237; D. Kurze, “Zur Ketzergeschichte der Mark Brandenburg und Pommerns vornehmlich im 14 Jahrhundert: Luziferianer, Putzkeller und Waldenser”, in Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands, vol. 16–17, Berlin, 1968, pp. 50–94.

13 John of Winterthur, op. cit., p. 145.

14 Nicolas Eymeric, Directorium Inquisitorum, Rome, 1578, p. 206.

15 For the transcript of the interrogation see Processus contra Valdenses, Pauperes de Lugduno...., ed. G. Amati, in Archivo storico italiano, vol. I, 2, pp. 16–52, and vol. II, 1, pp. 3-61 (both Florence, 1865). For the relevant passages of Antonio Galosna’s confession see vol. II, pp. 3, 9, 12–31. See also C. Cantù, Gli Eretici d'Italia, vol. I, Turin, 1865, pp. 83-6; G. Boffito, “Eretici in Piemonte al tempo del gran scisma (1378–1417)”, in Studi e Documenti di Storia e Diritto, 18th year, Rome, 1896, pp. 381–431 (esp. pp. 387, 407-8); and G. Gonnet, “Casi di sincretismo ereticale in Piemonte nei secoli XIV e XV”, in Bollettino della Società di Studi Valdesi

(Bulletin de la société d’histoire vaudoise), vol. CVIII, Torre Pellice, i960.

16 Cf. Amati’s introduction to the Processus, pp. 14–15. For the sentence see Instrumentum Sententiae late per Dominum Inquisitorem contra duos Valdenses, ed. G. M. di San Giovanni, in Miscellanea di Storia Italiana, vol. XV, Turin, 1876, pp. 75–84. For the trial of 1451: G. Weitzecker, “Processo di un valdese nell’Anno 1451”, in La Rivista Cristiana, vol. IX, Florence, Turin, Rome, 1881, pp. 363-7.

17 On this episode see J. Chevalier, Mémoire historique sur les hérésies en Dauphiné, Valence, 1890, and J. Marx, L’Inquisition en Dauphiné, Paris, 1914.

18 J. Marx, op. cit., p. 170.

19 Ibid., pp. 26-7.