The Making of a Heretic

  Preface

 collapse sectionIntroduction
 Mapping the Christian Community: The Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Spheres
 The Christian Community and the "World": Strategies of Accommodation and Alienation
 Naming the "Other": The Discourse of Orthodoxy in Late-Fourth-Century Spain
 Plan and Scope of This Work
 Excursus: A Selective Review of Priscillian in Twentieth-Century Scholarship
 collapse sectionChapter One  "A Strange Man" Opposition Emerges at the Council of Saragossa
 Contextualizing the Council of Saragossa: The Evidence of Priscillian and Sulpicius Severus
 The Form of the Conciliar Acta
 Strategy and Performance in the Conciliar Acta
 Conclusions
 collapse sectionChapter Two  "Manichaean" Charge and Countercharge in Priscillian's Tractates
 Conflict at Merida and the Rescript Against "Pseudobishops and Manichaeans": The Letter to Damasus
 Priscillian's Defense
 Cosmology and the Ascetic Body: Priscillian's Sermons
 Conclusions
 collapse sectionChapter Three  "Sorcerer" Alliances, Enmities, and the Death of Priscillian
 Bordeaux
 Milan
 Rome
 Milan, Spain, and Bordeaux Revisited
 Trier
 Conclusions
 collapse sectionChapter Four  "Priscillianist" Heresy Inquisitions at Toledo and Tarragona
 collapse sectionThe Council of Toledo (400)
 Investigation of the Orthodoxy of the Galician Bishops
 The Judgments of the Council of Toledo
 Heresy Inquisition at Tarragona
 Conclusions
 collapse sectionChapter Five  "Gnostic" Priscillian Reinterpreted by Sulpicius Severus and Jerome
 The Texts and the Question of Influence
 collapse sectionCommonalities of Context
 Sulpicius Severus
 Jerome
 Conclusions
  Conclusions

 collapse sectionNotes
 Introduction
 Chapter One "A Strange Man" Opposition Emerges at the Council of Saragossa
 Chapter Two "Manichaean" Charge and Countercharge in Priscillian's Tractates
 Chapter Three "Sorcerer" Alliances, Enmities, and the Death of Priscillian
 Chapter Four "Priscillianist" Heresy Inquisitions at Toledo and Tarragona
 Chapter Five "Gnostic" Priscillian Reinterpreted by Sulpicius Severus and Jerome
 Conclusions
 collapse sectionSelected Bibliography
 Ancient Sources
 Modern Studies
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