Lexington Books
Pages: 384
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅛
978-1-7936-0823-9 • Hardback • April 2023 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
978-1-7936-0824-6 • eBook • April 2023 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
John A. Dempsey is professor of history at Westfield State University.
Chapter 1 The Broad Historical Landscape
Chapter 2 Bonizo of Sutri: A Biographical Outline to 1085-1086
Chapter 3 The Liber ad amicum: Historical and Literary Contexts
Chapter 4 Back to the Future: The Meaning of the Liber ad amicum
Chapter 5 The Pataria’s Armed Kulturkampf
Chapter 6 Bishop Bonizo of Piacenza
Chapter 7 A Patarene in Winter
Chapter 8 The Liber de vita christiana: Canonical treatise as a Patarene Regula Pastoralis
Chapter 9 The Liber de vita christiana: Canonical Treatise as Ecclesio-Political Polemic
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix The Minor Works