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The Bogomils: A Study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism

By Dimitri Obolensky

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521607639, 9780521607636
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23520401 bytes)
Pages
332\168
Time added
2017-05-08 22:39:19
Europe;Belgium;France;Germany;Great Britain;Greenl

Description

The Bogomils: A Study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism traces the development of this little-understood heresy from its Middle Eastern roots. The Bogomils derived elements of their doctrine and practice from the Manichaeans and the Paulicians. By the reign of Alexius Comnenus, Bogomilism was rife within the Bulgarian and Byzantine empire and had taken hold even amongst influential families in Constantinople itself. Though they suffered persecution, decline and ultimate disappearance in their Balkan heartlands, the Bogomils were subsequently an influence upon more celebrated heresies in France and Italy. Dmitri Obolensky's magisterial study of Balkan dualism remains the definitive work on Bogomilism.

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