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Christian Dualist Heresies in the Byzantine World, c. 650-c. 1450
; ...Paulicians, the remaining thirty-five Bogomils. A crisp and decisive historical introduction...s account of the Paulicians; for the Bogomils and their history the position is easier...Bulgaria before the emergence of the Bogomils and some subconscious interpenetration...
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Obituary: Professor Sir Dimitri Obolensky
; ...academic, Obolensky began in 1946 with a Cambridge thesis on the Bogomils (1946), which may explain something. It is about medieval Balkan...year 1110. In 1948 Obolensky dedicated the published book (The Bogomils: a study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism) to his mother, Countess...
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Religious nettles still choke the 'garden full of different flowers'
; ...celibacy of the clergy, and the shaving of priests' beards. To complicate matters, Bosnia was home to a Manichean sect, the Bogomils, regarded as forerunners of Protestantism, who were persecuted by both Christian churches and later converted to Islam. The...
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Blood thirsty Europe; LETTERS.
; ...Jews in Germany and Turks in Anatolia. After 1202, Innocent III annihilated the inhabitants of Zadar and Constantinople, the Bogomils in the Baltic States and 20,000 Cathars at Beziers. Between 1234 and 1836, St Dominic's Inquisition tortured to death more...
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No such thing as the gospel truth Peter Jones looks at the uses made of St Matthew's Gospel
; ...traditions, though obviously historical nonsense, were all believed somewhere, at some time, for some reason. Bizarre sects - Bogomils, Cathars, Oneidans - did not regard themselves as bizarre. "Proof-texts", single verses that have been used to establish "conclusively...
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Farewell at last to the monsters of war. . . and a cautious embrace for days of peace
; ...just as we were all taxed to explain why these Balkan people - they who had produced Ivo Andric and the delicate art of the Bogomils and the Ottoman bridges over the Drina - should do such terrible things to each other. It was a Serb woman who came closest...
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All the stories, all the time: ; The tales of creation require impartial delivery
; ...wondering, "Why?" This argument of who is the right kind of Christian has been around since the Arians, the Cathars, Albigenses, Bogomils and Gnostics, Lutherans, Puritans, Convenanters - the list is endless. As a teacher, I think my job is not to promote any belief...
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The Christian World of the Middle Ages
; ...a few occasions jarring. For instance, he states as a simple fact that the Cathars "were a western branch of the Byzantine Bogomils," a judgment that reflects Hamilton's own considerable expertise on the subject, but with which not all scholars would agree...
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Abattoir Christianity Christopher Bland enjoys this study of the mysterious and persecuted Cathars
; ...spreading to southern France from Bulgaria, Croatia and Bosnia. The Cathars, like their precursors the Zoroastrians, Manicheans and Bogomils, were dualists, believing in the equal and opposing powers of good and evil, and that the material world was the Devil's creation...
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(book reviews)
; ...debate, which may be the reason why F. finds it necessary to discriminate carefully between non-Cathars on the one hand and Bogomils and Cathars on the other. His analysis is especially appealing, because he offers us a methodological discussion on heresy...
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