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A God of One's OwnThe Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict

A God of One's OwnThe Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict doi 10.1215/0961754X-1815800 Karen Sullivan, The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), 296 pp. Violence, persecution, cruelty, torture . . . these seem to be the popular topics among medieval historians at the moment, and Karen Sullivan's book fits right in. In clear and effective prose, she studies seven individuals whom she denominates "inquisitors." Her approach is to organize her very detailed analysis of these men, both as described by their contemporaries and as seen in their own writings, Common Knowledge 19:1 © 2013 by Duke University Press under a set of binary oppositions such as judicial (a legal approach that allows accusation and defense) versus penitential (a framework in which the individual is always guilty of sin), or zeal (determination to save the community from threat) versus charity (concern for the soul of the heretic). In an interesting and original interpretation, she associates the zeal of figures such as Conrad of Marburg or Thomas Aquinas with a view of heretics as having a fixed identity, whereas more charitable spiritual leaders such as Wazo of Liège or Peter Martyr understand the misguided self as unstable and therefore educable, even convertible and redeemable. The inclusion http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

A God of One's OwnThe Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict

Isaacs, A.
Common Knowledge , Volume 19 (1) – Dec 21, 2013
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doi 10.1215/0961754X-1815800 Karen Sullivan, The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), 296 pp. Violence, persecution, cruelty, torture . . . these seem to be the popular topics among medieval historians at the moment, and Karen Sullivan's book fits right in. In clear and effective prose, she studies seven individuals whom she denominates "inquisitors." Her approach is to organize her very detailed analysis of these men, both as described by their contemporaries and as seen in their own writings, Common Knowledge 19:1 © 2013 by Duke University Press under a set of binary oppositions such as judicial (a legal approach that allows accusation and defense) versus penitential (a framework in which the individual is always guilty of sin), or zeal (determination to save the community from threat) versus charity (concern for the soul of the heretic). In an interesting and original interpretation, she associates the zeal of figures such as Conrad of Marburg or Thomas Aquinas with a view of heretics as having a fixed identity, whereas more charitable spiritual leaders such as Wazo of Liège or Peter Martyr understand the misguided self as unstable and therefore educable, even convertible and redeemable. The inclusion

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