Peter Biller
Biographic Data
| ID | 734867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Biller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Biller |
| SIGNATURE | BILLER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700
This book presents essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition
Medieval Christianity in Practice
Cathars in Question
Intellectuals and the Masses
This volume brings together the latest scholarship on the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500 AD. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity is about the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Roman Church between 400 and 1500AD, and brings together in one volume a host of cutting-edge analysis. The book does not primarily provide a chronological narrative, but rather seeks to demonstrate the v…
Cathars and the Material World
On 6 August 1221 Dominic ‘migrated to Christ’ in the Dominican convent in Bologna. He had no bed of his own and he had lent his only tunic to someone. As he slept in the convent, he was lying on a borrowed bed and dressed in borrowed clothes. This was the story later told by Moneta of Cremona, the friar who had lent his bed and clothing to the dying holy man. Moneta features in another story, collected by a friar who was commissioned by a general…
Ketzer in der Stadt
Goodbye to Waldensianism
Journal Article Goodbye to Waldensianism? Get access Peter Biller Peter Biller University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 192, Issue 1, August 2006, Pages 3-33, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtl004 Published: 01 August 2006
Histoire des populations et histoire des savoirs demographiques
1. Introduction to Medieval Demographic Thought PART 1: THE CHURCH AND GENERATION 2. Marriage and the Church's Marriage-Texts 3. William of Auvergne 4. Equal or Unequal Numbers of Men and Women 5. The Precept of Marriage and Sufficient Multiplication 6. Avoidance of Offspring (i): The General Picture 7. Avoidance of Offspring (ii): Canon Law and Sentences Commentaries 8. Avoidance of Offspring (iii): The Pastoral Picture PART 2: THE MAP OF THE WO…
Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus
Inhabitation of the World
The Measure of Multitude
By 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing and this book describes how medieval people thought about population through both the texts which contained their thought and the medieval realities which shaped it. They found many topics, such as the history of population and var…
The Corruption of Angles
Suicide in the Middle Ages. Vol. I
1University of York Suicide in the Middle Ages. Vol. I: The Violent against Themselves; Vol. II: The Curse on Self‐Murder AlexanderMurray OxfordOxford U.P. 1999, 2000xxiii + 485, xxiii + 620£30 each vol
The Waldenses, 1170–1530
Contents: Introduction Historiography: The Waldenses in the 14th and 15th centuries: the current state of knowledge The historiography of medieval heresy in the United States of America and Great Britain, 1945a 1992 The medieval waldenses: Curate infirmos: the medieval Waldensian practice of medicine Multum ieiunantes et se castigantes: medieval Waldensian asceticism Medieval Waldensian abhorrence of killing pre-c.1400 Poverty and money: Thesauru…
The Waldenses 1300-1500
Les vaudois (1300-1500) L'impression première de pauvreté des travaux pour la décennie 1988-1998 est trompeuse : de nouveaux chercheurs n'ont pas encore publié le résultat de leur recherche. Voici ceux qui émergent : l'ouvrage général de G. Audisio ; les études préliminaires et l'édition des procès de Fribourg par K. Utz Tremp ; le chef-d'œuvre de P. Paravy sur la religion vécue en Dauphiné ; les écrits de G. G. Merlo, qui attirent l'attention su…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access PETER BILLER PETER BILLER University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 432, June 1994, Pages 674–675, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.432.674 Published: 01 June 1994
Views of Jews from Paris Around 1300
A Term in many ways inappropriate to the Middle Ages’: so begins AA a recent medieval encyclopaedia article on ‘antisemitism’. It is the first worry of the medievalist. On the one hand, he or she hears the c’est la même chose cry of the non-medievalist when the latter looks at examples of medieval hatred of the Jews. On the other hand, he or she is acutely aware both of the modernity of racial thought and the way in which twelfth-or thirteenth-ce…
The Common Woman in the Western Church in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
Shortly after 1290 an anonymous Alsace Dominican set down in writing what he thought had changed since about 1200. The range and variety of the themes and details in his account of changes between 1200 and 1290 are extraordinary. One did not yet have iron-wheeled carts, he wrote, nor that sort of plaster which is called cementum . The buildings of Strasbourg and Basel were mean, small-windowed, with little light, and there was no bridge across th…
Thesaurus Absconditus
Records which survive of interrogations, principally of Waldensian followers, in Fribourg in 1430 preserve for us the figure of a k. person who had clearly been much seen on the streets of Fribourg in the 1420s, a town gossip. The woman in question was called Surer, nicknamed ‘the Fat’. One of the reported street-corner conversations has Surer the Fat talking to an earnest credens , a follower of the Waldensian Brothers. Her opening gambit was th…
Les Vaudois du Luberon
Multum ieiunantes et se castigantes
The first half of a recently published book describes Waldensianism in the Cottian alps c . 1500. The author decides to pass over both the Waldensian preachers, whom I shall call ‘Brothers’, and their literature. He argues that there is insufficient trial evidence about the Brothers, and that in any case their ‘ascetic detachment from society’ would have made it unlikely that they would have had much influence among peasant Waldensians. Their boo…
Words and the Medieval Notion of ‘Religion’
In recent years some of the most interesting statements about medieval Christianity have come not from medieval but early modern historians, Jean Delumeau, Keith Thomas, John Bossy and others, in the broad descriptive accounts which form the backcloth to discussions of reformation or counter-reformation developments in ‘religion’ – provocative statements which have not, however, evoked a large response from the English world of medieval scholarsh…
Medieval Waldensian Abhorrence of Killing Pre- c 1400
Waldensians figure high among the protagonists in accounts of medieval pacifism. The two areas on which these accounts usually concentrate correspond to two broad areas in the sect’s history—the genesis of abhorrence of killing during the formative early years, and the perseverance (or decline) of this position during the later centuries of an underground and only slowly changing movement—and they are also the two themes of this paper. The first …
Curate Infirmos
The question posed in this paper is the extent and nature of the medical practice of the medieval waldensian brothers. What lies behind this is in part a historiographical development which gained impetus in the 1960s, principally in the works of Mollat. In these the the period of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries has been identified as crucial in several areas: a prise de conscience by many of the problems of material need, whether…
Birth-Control in the West in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
BIRTH-CONTROL IN THE WEST IN THE THIRTEENTH AND EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURIES P. P. A. Biller P. P. A. Biller University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 94, Issue 1, February 1982, Pages 3–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/94.1.3 Published: 01 February 1982
The Measure of Multitude
By 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing and this book describes how medieval people thought about population through both the texts which contained their thought and the medieval realities which shaped it. They found many topics, such as the history of population and var…
Words and the Medieval Notion of ‘Religion’
In recent years some of the most interesting statements about medieval Christianity have come not from medieval but early modern historians, Jean Delumeau, Keith Thomas, John Bossy and others, in the broad descriptive accounts which form the backcloth to discussions of reformation or counter-reformation developments in ‘religion’ – provocative statements which have not, however, evoked a large response from the English world of medieval scholarsh…
Goodbye to Waldensianism
Journal Article Goodbye to Waldensianism? Get access Peter Biller Peter Biller University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 192, Issue 1, August 2006, Pages 3-33, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtl004 Published: 01 August 2006
Birth-Control in the West in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
BIRTH-CONTROL IN THE WEST IN THE THIRTEENTH AND EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURIES P. P. A. Biller P. P. A. Biller University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 94, Issue 1, February 1982, Pages 3–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/94.1.3 Published: 01 February 1982
Cathars and the Material World
On 6 August 1221 Dominic ‘migrated to Christ’ in the Dominican convent in Bologna. He had no bed of his own and he had lent his only tunic to someone. As he slept in the convent, he was lying on a borrowed bed and dressed in borrowed clothes. This was the story later told by Moneta of Cremona, the friar who had lent his bed and clothing to the dying holy man. Moneta features in another story, collected by a friar who was commissioned by a general…
Views of Jews from Paris Around 1300
A Term in many ways inappropriate to the Middle Ages’: so begins AA a recent medieval encyclopaedia article on ‘antisemitism’. It is the first worry of the medievalist. On the one hand, he or she hears the c’est la même chose cry of the non-medievalist when the latter looks at examples of medieval hatred of the Jews. On the other hand, he or she is acutely aware both of the modernity of racial thought and the way in which twelfth-or thirteenth-ce…
The Common Woman in the Western Church in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
Shortly after 1290 an anonymous Alsace Dominican set down in writing what he thought had changed since about 1200. The range and variety of the themes and details in his account of changes between 1200 and 1290 are extraordinary. One did not yet have iron-wheeled carts, he wrote, nor that sort of plaster which is called cementum . The buildings of Strasbourg and Basel were mean, small-windowed, with little light, and there was no bridge across th…
Multum ieiunantes et se castigantes
The first half of a recently published book describes Waldensianism in the Cottian alps c . 1500. The author decides to pass over both the Waldensian preachers, whom I shall call ‘Brothers’, and their literature. He argues that there is insufficient trial evidence about the Brothers, and that in any case their ‘ascetic detachment from society’ would have made it unlikely that they would have had much influence among peasant Waldensians. Their boo…
Medieval Waldensian Abhorrence of Killing Pre- c 1400
Waldensians figure high among the protagonists in accounts of medieval pacifism. The two areas on which these accounts usually concentrate correspond to two broad areas in the sect’s history—the genesis of abhorrence of killing during the formative early years, and the perseverance (or decline) of this position during the later centuries of an underground and only slowly changing movement—and they are also the two themes of this paper. The first …
Curate Infirmos
The question posed in this paper is the extent and nature of the medical practice of the medieval waldensian brothers. What lies behind this is in part a historiographical development which gained impetus in the 1960s, principally in the works of Mollat. In these the the period of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries has been identified as crucial in several areas: a prise de conscience by many of the problems of material need, whether…
Curate Infirmos
The question posed in this paper is the extent and nature of the medical practice of the medieval waldensian brothers. What lies behind this is in part a historiographical development which gained impetus in the 1960s, principally in the works of Mollat. In these the the period of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries has been identified as crucial in several areas: a prise de conscience by many of the problems of material need, whether…
Birth-Control in the West in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
BIRTH-CONTROL IN THE WEST IN THE THIRTEENTH AND EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURIES P. P. A. Biller P. P. A. Biller University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 94, Issue 1, February 1982, Pages 3–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/94.1.3 Published: 01 February 1982
Medieval Waldensian Abhorrence of Killing Pre- c 1400
Waldensians figure high among the protagonists in accounts of medieval pacifism. The two areas on which these accounts usually concentrate correspond to two broad areas in the sect’s history—the genesis of abhorrence of killing during the formative early years, and the perseverance (or decline) of this position during the later centuries of an underground and only slowly changing movement—and they are also the two themes of this paper. The first …
Multum ieiunantes et se castigantes
The first half of a recently published book describes Waldensianism in the Cottian alps c . 1500. The author decides to pass over both the Waldensian preachers, whom I shall call ‘Brothers’, and their literature. He argues that there is insufficient trial evidence about the Brothers, and that in any case their ‘ascetic detachment from society’ would have made it unlikely that they would have had much influence among peasant Waldensians. Their boo…
Words and the Medieval Notion of ‘Religion’
In recent years some of the most interesting statements about medieval Christianity have come not from medieval but early modern historians, Jean Delumeau, Keith Thomas, John Bossy and others, in the broad descriptive accounts which form the backcloth to discussions of reformation or counter-reformation developments in ‘religion’ – provocative statements which have not, however, evoked a large response from the English world of medieval scholarsh…
Thesaurus Absconditus
Records which survive of interrogations, principally of Waldensian followers, in Fribourg in 1430 preserve for us the figure of a k. person who had clearly been much seen on the streets of Fribourg in the 1420s, a town gossip. The woman in question was called Surer, nicknamed ‘the Fat’. One of the reported street-corner conversations has Surer the Fat talking to an earnest credens , a follower of the Waldensian Brothers. Her opening gambit was th…
Les Vaudois du Luberon
The Common Woman in the Western Church in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
Shortly after 1290 an anonymous Alsace Dominican set down in writing what he thought had changed since about 1200. The range and variety of the themes and details in his account of changes between 1200 and 1290 are extraordinary. One did not yet have iron-wheeled carts, he wrote, nor that sort of plaster which is called cementum . The buildings of Strasbourg and Basel were mean, small-windowed, with little light, and there was no bridge across th…
Views of Jews from Paris Around 1300
A Term in many ways inappropriate to the Middle Ages’: so begins AA a recent medieval encyclopaedia article on ‘antisemitism’. It is the first worry of the medievalist. On the one hand, he or she hears the c’est la même chose cry of the non-medievalist when the latter looks at examples of medieval hatred of the Jews. On the other hand, he or she is acutely aware both of the modernity of racial thought and the way in which twelfth-or thirteenth-ce…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access PETER BILLER PETER BILLER University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 432, June 1994, Pages 674–675, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.432.674 Published: 01 June 1994
The Waldenses 1300-1500
Les vaudois (1300-1500) L'impression première de pauvreté des travaux pour la décennie 1988-1998 est trompeuse : de nouveaux chercheurs n'ont pas encore publié le résultat de leur recherche. Voici ceux qui émergent : l'ouvrage général de G. Audisio ; les études préliminaires et l'édition des procès de Fribourg par K. Utz Tremp ; le chef-d'œuvre de P. Paravy sur la religion vécue en Dauphiné ; les écrits de G. G. Merlo, qui attirent l'attention su…
The Waldenses, 1170–1530
Contents: Introduction Historiography: The Waldenses in the 14th and 15th centuries: the current state of knowledge The historiography of medieval heresy in the United States of America and Great Britain, 1945a 1992 The medieval waldenses: Curate infirmos: the medieval Waldensian practice of medicine Multum ieiunantes et se castigantes: medieval Waldensian asceticism Medieval Waldensian abhorrence of killing pre-c.1400 Poverty and money: Thesauru…
Suicide in the Middle Ages. Vol. I
1University of York Suicide in the Middle Ages. Vol. I: The Violent against Themselves; Vol. II: The Curse on Self‐Murder AlexanderMurray OxfordOxford U.P. 1999, 2000xxiii + 485, xxiii + 620£30 each vol
Inhabitation of the World
The Measure of Multitude
By 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing and this book describes how medieval people thought about population through both the texts which contained their thought and the medieval realities which shaped it. They found many topics, such as the history of population and var…
The Corruption of Angles
Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus
Histoire des populations et histoire des savoirs demographiques
1. Introduction to Medieval Demographic Thought PART 1: THE CHURCH AND GENERATION 2. Marriage and the Church's Marriage-Texts 3. William of Auvergne 4. Equal or Unequal Numbers of Men and Women 5. The Precept of Marriage and Sufficient Multiplication 6. Avoidance of Offspring (i): The General Picture 7. Avoidance of Offspring (ii): Canon Law and Sentences Commentaries 8. Avoidance of Offspring (iii): The Pastoral Picture PART 2: THE MAP OF THE WO…
Goodbye to Waldensianism
Journal Article Goodbye to Waldensianism? Get access Peter Biller Peter Biller University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 192, Issue 1, August 2006, Pages 3-33, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtl004 Published: 01 August 2006
Ketzer in der Stadt
Cathars and the Material World
On 6 August 1221 Dominic ‘migrated to Christ’ in the Dominican convent in Bologna. He had no bed of his own and he had lent his only tunic to someone. As he slept in the convent, he was lying on a borrowed bed and dressed in borrowed clothes. This was the story later told by Moneta of Cremona, the friar who had lent his bed and clothing to the dying holy man. Moneta features in another story, collected by a friar who was commissioned by a general…
Intellectuals and the Masses
This volume brings together the latest scholarship on the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500 AD. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity is about the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Roman Church between 400 and 1500AD, and brings together in one volume a host of cutting-edge analysis. The book does not primarily provide a chronological narrative, but rather seeks to demonstrate the v…
Cathars in Question
Medieval Christianity in Practice
Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700
This book presents essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition
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