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Bishop Bartholomew of Exeter (d. 1184) and the Heresy of Astrology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2018

DAVID RUNCIMAN*
Affiliation:
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge CB3 oDG; e-mail: dr421@cam.ac.uk

Abstract

In the late twelfth century, Bartholomew, bishop of Exeter (1161–84), identified astrology as the most serious heresy facing the English Church. The evidence of Bartholomew's writing suggests that astrology became more widely accepted among the English clergy during his episcopal tenure. It also supports the view that popular heretical movements enjoyed little success in England during this period, in contrast to some regions in mainland Europe. Instead, it was scholars deemed guilty of intellectual error, and above all the astrologers, who became the focus of Bartholomew's anxieties about heresy and the intellectual culture of his day.

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I am grateful for feedback on this article from the reviewer and from Dr Julie Barrau.

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35 Both Hexamerons were apparently held at Reading Abbey in 1192, and at Ramsey Abbey and the Augustinian Friary at York in the fourteenth century: Sharpe, R., Carley, J. P., Thomson, R. M. and Watson, A. G. (eds), English Benedictine libraries: the shorter catalogues, London 1996, 382–3Google Scholar, 428, 435; Humphreys, K. W. (ed.), The friars' libraries, London 1990, 22Google Scholar.

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39 ‘In primis tamen contra eos qui per signorum et astrorum constitutionem et potestatem hanc heresim conantur astruere, duxi esse dicendum, tum quia contra alios diutius et laboriosius est intendendum, tum quia contra hos a sanctis patribus sufficienter non modo dictum, sed et scriptum esse reperio, qui signorum celestium nec omnimodam, nec nullam admittendam, iudicant obseruationem, quia in plerisque catholice fidei contraria, et incomprehensibilis est et uana': CFE ii, i, pp. 12–13.

40 ‘Beatus uero Augustinus contra eandem heresim tam prudenter et peremptorie disputat, ut sufficienter intellegentibus quod dicit sufficere debeat': CFE xvii, i, pp. 21–2.

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43 For David Bell's description of this section see CFE, pp. xxxii–xxxv.

44 ‘sophisticas obiectiones’: CFE ciii, i, p. 105. This section of the treatise is CFE xliicii, pp. 49–105.

45 CFE civclxxiv, pp. 106–66.

46 ‘In quo nichil michi asscribendum censeo, nec ascribo, nisi catholicorum doctorum sententias multa diligentia conquisisse, sed maiore studio iuxta questionum uarietates locis congruentibus adaptasse': CFE, epistola commendativa, iii, p. 11.

47 ‘si quid inueneris sacre fidei uel bonis moribus aliquatenus aduersum, aut non manifeste uerum, aut non irrefragabili ratione probatum, aut non saltem certa auctoritate subnixum, totum deleas': CFE, epistola commendativa, iv, p. 11.

48 Abelard, Peter, Opera theologica, V: Expositio in hexameron, Abbreviatio Petri Abaelardi expositionis in hexameron, ed. Romig, M., Luscombe, D. E. and Burnett, C., CCCM xv, 2004, cciii, pp. 4950Google Scholar.

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51 Eustathius, L'Hexaéméron de Basile, vi, vi, p. 78; CFE xii, p.17.

52 ‘Ecce Augustini et Anselmi et Boetii solutiones': CFE xxxvii, vii, p. 43.

53 Astrology is not discussed directly after chapter xxi, with two brief exceptions: CFE lviii, iv, p. 65; lx, i–ii, p. 68.

54 ‘Qui, quamuis uarias pretendant facies, in hac tamen una scorpionis cauda conueniunt, ut nichil libero hominum arbitrio, immo nec ipsum liberum relinquatur arbitrium; et sic omnem peccandi causam sacrilega excusatione sui, in salutis auctorem retorquere presumunt’: CFE i, i, p. 12.

55 ‘Plerique declinantes corda in uerba malicie ad excusandas excusationes in peccatis, omnium que fiunt seu quoquomodo eueniunt, fatalem uel alias ineuitabilem necessitatem conantur astruere': ibid.

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57 ‘Denique docet quod si uera est mathematicorum opinio, nec iustis premia, nec iniustis supplicia iure deberi, omnemque hominum industriam et laborem superfluum estimandum’: CFE xvi, iv, p. 21.

58 ‘Diuini dicti sunt, quasi Deo pleni’: Morey, Bartholomew, 271.

59 ‘Necessitatis uero causam, alii diuine prouidentie immutabilitatem et infallibilitatem, alii siderum positionem seu constellationem, quam et fatum appellant, esse contendunt’: CFE i, i, 12.

60 Augustine, De civitate dei, v, ix, p. 207.

61 CFE i, i, p. 12; ii, i, p. 12; xvii, i, p. 21; xxii, p. 29. Of course, astrology had long been associated with heresy: Hegedus, T., Early Christianity and ancient astrology, Bern 2007, 146–7CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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65 ‘Si quis ariolos, aruspices uel incantatores obseruauerit, aut philacteriis usus fuerit, anathema sit’: Morey, Bartholomew, 272.

66 ‘Si quis episcopus aut presbiter, siue diaconus uel quilibet ex ordine clericorum, magos aut aruspices aut ariolos, aut certe augures uel sortilegos, aut eos qui profitentur artem magicam aut aliquos eorum similia exercentes consuluisse fuerit deprehensus, ab honore dignitatis sue depositus, monasterium ingressus ibique perpetue penitentie deditus, scelus admissi sacrilegii luat’: ibid. Similar lists of condemned kinds of divination are seen in earlier penitentials: Filotas, B., Pagan survivals, superstitions and popular cultures in early medieval pastoral literature, Toronto 2005, 223–5Google Scholar.

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68 Ibid. 260, 271–3.

69 ‘eorum non solum collationes sed et colloquia uniuersa declinare debemus, scientes quia corrumpunt bonos mores colloquia praua, et qui tetigerit picem inquinabitur ab ea’: Bodl. Lib., ms Bodley 482, fo. 1va; cf. Dahan, G., La Polémique chrétienne contre le judaïsme au moyen âge, Paris 1991, 81Google Scholar.

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84 Abelard, Hexameron, vi, clxvi–ccviii, pp. 42–52; Grosseteste, Hexaemeron, v, viii, p. 166; cf. Genesis i.14.

85 ‘O rex siderei quo constat machina celi’: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Vita Merlini, ed. B. Clarke, Cardiff 1973, 114.

86 ‘Nichil enim aliud planetae nisi quod Deus preuiderit aut predestinauerit significant’: Clark, ‘A Christian defense of astrology’, 98, 102.

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88 ‘Qui uero eorum modestissimi sunt nec sideribus rerum pollicentur effectus nec eas necessitati lege dispositionis astringunt, sed quia uenture sunt certisque prenuntiantur indiciis, predicere non uerentur': John of Salisbury, Policraticus, I–IV, ed. K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, CCCM cxviii, 1993, ii, xxiv, p. 137.

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91 ‘Hanc si quis sibi priuatam facere posset, non modo presentem rerum inferiorum statum, uerum etiam preteritum uel futurum non diffiteretur. Superiora quippe illa diuinaque animalia inferiorum naturarum et principium et cause sunt’: Adelard of Bath, Conversations with his nephew: on the same and the different, questions on natural science, and on birds, ed. C. Burnett, Cambridge 1988, 69.

92 CFE, epistola commendativa, iii, p. 11.

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108 ‘Plerique declinantes corda in uerba malicie ad excusandas excusationes in peccatis, omnium que fiunt seu quoquomodo eueniunt, fatalem uel alias ineuitabilem necessitatem conantur astruere': CFE i, i, p. 12.

109 ‘qua homines quod cupiunt libenter credunt’: CFE, epistola commendativa, iii, p. 11.

110 Bartholomew's addressee Baldwin of Ford had written about faith and reason, particularly in his De commendatione fidei. However, Baldwin argued that reason led the will astray, rather than vice-versa as Bartholomew contends here: Baldwin of Ford, Balduini de Forda opera: sermones, De commendatione fidei, ed. D. N. Bell, CCCM ic, 1991, praefatio, ii, p. 343.

111 ‘Sunt alii qui definitum per prophetam gradum qui ait: Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis’: CFE i, ii, p. 12; cf. Isaiah vii.9.

112 ‘non solum credere, sed et postmodum intelligere quod credunt, pie cupiunt et humiliter querunt’: CFE i, ii, p. 12.

113 Morey, Bartholomew, 163–6.

114 CFE, p. xxxiv.

115 Bell, ‘Twelfth-century divination’, 249–50; Balduini de Forda opera, pp. xxx–xxxi. The extended section is lxxxv, vii–xvi, pp. 431–4.

116 ‘Permittit autem Deus nonnunquam per malos signa et portenta que futura sunt predici’: Balduini de Forda opera, lxxxv, vii, p. 431. Translation from Baldwin of Ford, The commendation of faith, trans. J. P. Freeland and D. N. Bell, Kalamazoo, Mi 2000, 230–1.

117 Balduini de Forda opera, lxxxv, xiii–xiv, p. 433.

118 Morey, Bartholomew, 11, 20.

119 John of Salisbury, Policraticus, ii, xx, p. 118; cf. Matt. xxiv.36.

120 John of Salisbury, The letters of John of Salisbury, II: The later letters (1163–1180), ed. W. J. Millor and C. N. L. Brooke, Oxford 1979, 392–3.

121 ‘Ceterum artem esse qua quis de futuris ad omnia interrogata uerum respondeat aut omnino non esse aut nondum innotuisse hominibus michi multorum auctoritate et ratione persuasum est': John of Salisbury, Policraticus, ii, xxv, p. 140.

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