By Frances Andrews

This e-book is the 1st significant learn in English of a bunch of overdue twelfth-century spiritual fanatics, the early Humiliati, who have been condemned via the Church as heretics in 1184 but--in a awesome transition--were reconciled seventeen years later and went directly to identify a hugely profitable non secular order in northern Italy. utilizing a variety of assets, the character of the early circulate and its methods of institutional improvement are reconstructed. The booklet additionally incorporates a Bullarium Humiliatorum, a listing of papal and episcopal letters and privileges.

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123 118 119 120 121 122 123 den nichtrechtglaÈubigen religioÈsen Bewegungen', p. 203 n. 36; da Milano, `Il ``Liber supra stella'' del piacentino Salvo Burci', pp. 122±35. Maccarrone, `Riforma e sviluppo della vita religiosa con Innocenzo III', p. 47 and Studi, pp. 284±90. Bolton, `Innocent III's treatment of the Humiliati', pp. 73±82 and `Tradition and temerity', pp. 79±91. He used the work of Meersseman, later collected as `Ordo fraternitatis'. Confraternite e pietaÁ dei laici nel medioevo. Zerfaû, Der Streit um die Laienpredigt, pp.

Miccoli, `La storia religiosa', p. 609; see for example Merlo, Tensioni religiose agli inizi del duecento. Alberzoni, `Gli inizi degli Umiliati'; below, pp. 69±71. 28 Tradition and history Social origins and motivation Other closely related themes much debated in this century include the social origins and motivation of the early members of the movement. For Zanoni the organisation of the Humiliati was part of the class struggle. 125 These views were shared by Ellen Scott Davison, whose work was the ®rst study of the Humiliati in English.

Da Milano, `L'eresia di Ugo Speroni', pp. 454±6. Views later summarised in I. da Milano, `Umiliati', cols. 754±6; see also Selge, `Die Armut in 27 The early Humiliati Grundmann's study had sought to establish the religious quality of the Humiliati movement, centred on observance of the vita apostolica, the nature of the papal response and their return to the Church in 1201. 119 Writing slightly later than Maccarrone, Rolf Zerfaû, whose main concern was lay preaching, rejected Grundmann's analysis of the unprecedented nature of the authorisation given to the Humiliati.

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