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Other MiddleAges Michael Goodich - 9780812292312 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/20/2016 07:24:43PM via free access THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES RuthMazoKarras,GeneralEditor EdwardPeters,FoundingEditor Acompletelistofbooksintheseries isavailablefromthepublisher. Michael Goodich - 9780812292312 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/20/2016 07:24:43PM via free access Other Middle Ages Witnesses at the Margins ofMedieval Society Edited by Michael Goodich PENN UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress Philadelphia Michael Goodich - 9780812292312 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/20/2016 07:24:43PM via free access Copyright©1998UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaonacid-freepaper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I Publishedby UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress Philadelphia,Pennsylvania19I04-40II LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData OtherMiddleAges:witnessesatthemarginsofmedievalsociety/ editedbyMichaelGoodich. p. cm. - (TheMiddleAgesseries) Includesbibliographicalreferences (p. )andindex. ISBN0-8122-3448-0 (hardcover:acid-freepaper). - ISBN 0-8122-1654-7(pbk.:acid-freepaper) I.Socialhistory- Medieval,500-I500- Sources. 2.Marginality, Social-Europe- History- Sources. 3.Marginality,Social,in literature. I.Goodich,Michael,1944- . II.Series. HNI1.087 1998 306'.09'02- dC21 98-13308 CIP Michael Goodich - 9780812292312 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/20/2016 07:24:43PM via free access TotheMemoryof William Goodich (19I I - 1996), afighterforjustice Michael Goodich - 9780812292312 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/20/2016 07:24:43PM via free access Michael Goodich - 9780812292312 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/20/2016 07:24:43PM via free access Contents Introduction I I.TheJews: FromToleratedMinoritytoPersecutedFoe 19 CaesariusofHeisterbach (ca. 1225) andThomasofCantimpre 26 (ca. 1263) onCatherineofLouvain MeirbenIsaac,Purim (1236) 32 RabbiJudahbenYehielAsheriofToledo (d. 1349),Testament 33 BaruchtheGermanofLanguedoc (1320) 39 AnonymousDiscipleofAbrahamAbulafia,ShaareiTzedek 52 (TheGatesofJustice) (ca. 1290/95) II.ApostatesandConverts 61 ObadiahtheConvert (ca. 1100),Epistle 68 HermannofScheda (ca. 1107-70),Opusculumdeconversionesua 74 Sa'idibnHasanofAlexandria,Masalikal-Na~ar (TheWaysof 87 Understanding) (1298) RamonLlull,Devitasua (13I I / 12) 89 III. SexualNonconformistsandtheFiresofLust 104 RobertofFlamborough,Liberpoenitentialis (1210/13) 112 MunicipalLegislationofPisa (1286) andBologna (1288) 115 ArnaudofVerniolle (1323/24) 117 GerardCagnoli (d. 1342) andtheExorcismofLust 143 BridgetofSweden (d. 1371) 144 ThirdLateranDecreeonLepers (I179) 145 HumbertofRomans,TotheLeprous 146 Michael Goodich - 9780812292312 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/20/2016 07:25:27PM via free access viii Contents IV:VictimsoftheDevil:ThePossessed,theEcstatics, ISO andtheSuicidal OtlohofSt.Emmeram (10Io-after1067),Liberde 159 tentationibussuis ChristinaofStommeln,Epistolae (1272) 164 PopeCelestineV (I212?-96),Autobiografia 168 GiacomuccioFatteboni (1325) 180 YvesofPenguennan (1330),FollowerofYvesofTreguier 185 (d. 1303) ~ ChristianHeterodoxy 188 PeterWaldo,ProfessionofFaith (1181/82) 192 StatutesAgainstHeresy (1229) 195 ArnaudadaLamothaofMontauban (1244) 198 BeatriceofPlanisolles (1320) 201 FlordebellinaofMilanandOthers (1300),Disciples 215 ofGuglielma Thomassa (1318),DiscipleofClareofMontefalco 217 VI. InsidersandOutsiders: LiminalityandIntegration 221 TheOrdersofPenanceatBologna (1244) and 226 Bergamo (1265) FilippadiLeonardodiGislerio (1254),Discipleof 229 ClareofAssisi SalimbenedeAdam (d.ca. 1287),Cronica 235 JoanofMarden (1307),FollowerofBishopThomas 242 ofHereford ThomasdeMathia,CanonofSalerno (1319),Discipleof 245 ThomasAquinas BerardoAppillaterre,NotaryofTolentino (1325) 249 SelectedBibliography 255 Index 257 Michael Goodich - 9780812292312 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/20/2016 07:25:27PM via free access Introduction Theaimofthisvolumeistoprovideavoicetothosepersonsandgroupsin medievalsocietywhohaveoftenbeenignoredintraditionalsourcebooksof medievalhistory.Inthepast,economic,institutional,andecclesiasticalhis tory had largely been presented through documents and literary sources producedbytheofficialagentsofchurchandstateandreflectedtheideol ogyofthedominantclasses,thatis,theclergyandnobility. Charters,papal bulls, conciliardecisions, philosophicaltracts, androyallawcodes, for ex ample,haveremainedthefocusofmostsourcecollections,andthoseinter ested in the lives, aspirations, and problems ofthe unlettered classes and members ofminority groups have often had to be satisfied with sources producedbyothersorturntoworksdevotedexclusivelytosuchgroupsas the Jews, heretics, orwomen. All the texts included in this volume, how ever, dealwithpersons excluded, eitherpermanentlyortemporarily, from fullparticipationincivilsociety,andanefforthasbeenmadetoincludema terialthatwasprobablywrittenorattestedtobysuchpersonsthemselves. Thisbookhasbeendividedintochaptersdealingwith: (I) theJewish community; (2) apostates and converts; (3) sexual nonconformists; (4) victimsoftheDevil; (5) Christianheretics;and (6) theliminalandtempo rarily marginalized. Each chapter is introduced by a brief essay on the particular group involved. Although most ofthese texts were written for spiritualreasons,thereisneverthelessmuchconcerningthemoremundane affairsofdailylife. Aclosereadingofthesetextswillallowthereadertoexperiencevicari 0uscontactwithmedievalpeople.Thelivesofpersonsdrawnfromavariety ofbackgroundscomeintorelief.Amongthespeakersarethedaughterofa sheriff(JoanofMarden),aJewishmerchant (BaruchofLanguedoc),anda notary (Berardo Appillaterre). Such themes as child rearing, social life, economic difficulties, sexuality, family life, dreams, emotional instability, andgenderrelationsappearinthesesources.TestimonyconcerningGiaco muccioFatteboniofBelforte,forexample,describesthereactionsofvillage folktohisattemptedsuicide.Therecollectionsofaresidentofavillagenear Hereford,JoanofMarden,recountingherresuscitationafterdrowningina Michael Goodich - 9780812292312 Downloaded from De Gruyter Online at 09/26/2016 10:31:22AM via Cambridge University Library 2 Introduction localponddealswithcontemporaryperceptionsofspaceanddistance,fam ily structure, affectional ties, and popular medical knowledge. The testi monyofBaruchtheGermanofLanguedoc(foundinanInquisitorialproto col),forciblyconvertedtoChristianityunderpressurefromthePastoureaux in1320,shedslightonthecomplextiesbindingJewandChristian.Arnaud ofVerniolle'strialrecord,drawnfromthesamesource,representsaunique reportofhomosexualrelationsonthefringesofsocietyinsouthernFrance. ItpresentsafarmoretexturedpictureofsexualityintheMiddleAgesthan one finds in more conventional historical sources, such as chronicles, ser monsandmoraltreatises. MarginalityinMedievalSociety Thesepersonssufferedcertainliabilitiesthatidentifiedthemasmembersof a "marginal" group living on the geographical or legal peripheries ofso ciety. Bronislaw Geremek has noted that marginal persons or groups are primarilyknown to us on the basis ofjudicial records, in which they are condemned bythe authorities and by public opinion for their manner of living orconduct.l In some cases, marginalitycould be afunction ofper sonality. Those identified as "out of their minds" or "possessed by the Devil~'forexample,probablysufferedfromsomekindofmentalillnessthat ledtotheirconfinementandphysicalseparationfromthecommunity.Oth ers, such as Jews, heretics, orprostitutes, whose beliefs orways oflife did notconformtosocietalnormsweremarginalizedasaconsequenceoftheir social situation. Such persons tended to live in a permanent position of socialexclusion,burdenedwithaseriesoflegalliabilities. Athirdgroupofpersonsexperiencedtemporarymarginalizationdur ingaperiodofliminaltransitionfromoneconditiontoanother.Typically, afteranearlyperiodofisolationandhostility, theysoughtofficialrecogni tionfrom ecclesiastical authorities who mightconfirmtheirwayoflife in theframeworkofanewreligious orderunderthecontrollingauthorityof the church. PeterofMurrone, for example,laterelectedPope Celestine~ was a hermit who had dwelt in rural isolation in the Abruzzi before his orderwasgrantedrecognition.RamonLlull,afterabandoninghiswifeand children andthe life ofthe Majorcan court, spentsome time as ahermit, composed philosophical tracts, and eventually sought papal approval for I. BronislawGeremek, "TheMarginalMan:' in TheMedieval World, ed. Jacques Le Goff,trans.LydiaCochrane(London:CollinsandBrown,1990),347-73. 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