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Recent Researches Concerning Mediæval Sects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2009

Albert Henry Newman
Albert Henry Newman
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Professor of Church History in McMaster University, Toronto, Canada.
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No writer since Dieckhoff and Herzog has contributed so much to the right understanding of Waldensian history as Wilhelm Preger, and no sounder critic has ever busied himself with the literature of mediæval sects. The writings whose titles are here given were all originally published in the papers of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and have had a somewhat limited circulation in separate brochures from the types of the Academy. The first contains the text of the now famous Rescriptum Heresiarchum Lombardie ad Pauperes de Lugduno, qui sunt in Alamania, a mediæval list of forty Waldensian communities in the diocese of Passau (about 1250), and a treatise, De Occasionibus Errorum Hereticorum, whose unknown author Preger has dubbed the “Passau Anonymous,” preceded by a somewhat comprehensive treatise on the origin, character, divisions, and relations of the Waldenses, in the light of the materials at that time accessible.

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Research Article
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Papers of the American Society of Church History , Volume 4 , March 1914 , pp. 167 - 221
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Copyright © American Society for Church History 1892

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page 191 note 1 The passage cited by Breyer has reference not directly to Arnold, but rather to the Arnoldists. The use made of it by Breyer is justifiable only on the supposition that the Arnoldists derived their views from Arnold of Brescia. Durandus does not even say directly that the Arnoldists were astray as regards infant baptism; but their denial that the Holy Spirit is received in connection with the baptismal act is probably thought by Breyer to imply a radically anti-Romanist conception of the ordinance as such. The passage is as follows: “Arnoldistæ … asserunt, quod nunquam per baptismum aquæ homines Spiritum sanctum accipiunt, nee Samaritani baptizati ilium receperunt, donee manus impositionem acceperunt.”

page 207 note 1 Loserth and Müller have felt constrained by Preger's argumentation to admit the possibility of a slight Waldensian influence in Taboritism.

page 215 note 1 This document is found in some mediæval MSS. of the Latin Vulgate and in a Catharistic Romance version, but not in the Waldensian Romance versions, so far as is known.