HIST 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Waldensians, Jewish Diaspora, Late Antiquity
Document Summary
Church made distinction between heresy (heretics) and orthodox. Albigensian crusade 1209-1229: killed the cathars (heretical) Hussites and lollards: heretical groups emerging during the 1300s and 1400s. Persecution of jews 1095-1492: pogroms (1096, 1145, 1190 Jews committed mass suicides 1190 to avoid being murdered: lateran iv (1215, expulsion. Religious enthusiasm encouraged civilization and literature, but also intolerance. Lateran iv made transubstantiation legal and encouraged expulsion of jews. Pope innocent iii recognized orthodoxy of franciscan order. Franciscan order became divided as the large amounts of donations gave them lots of money: one group thought money was sinful, didn"t want anything to do with it; spiritual. Franciscans: other group wanted to keep the money. Spiritual franciscans started seeing pope as source of corruption. Pope john xxii 1316-1334: persecuted spiritual franciscans who thought pope was source of corruption; antichrist, declared them as heretics, burned at stake. Rhineland-- area by holy roman empire (germany) that was increasingly profitable.
