New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2000.

xiii, 476 p. : maps ; 20 cm.

Yale Nota bene

Yale Nota bene.

"First published as "The hidden tradition in Europe : the secret history of medieval Christian heresy," in 1994 by the Penguin Group.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-457) and index.

Chapter One: The Bridge of the Separator: Two Principles -- Two in One -- Enemy of the Gods -- Twin Spirits -- Spirit and Flesh -- Creator and Destroyer -- The Father of Light and Darkness -- The 'Anointed' and the 'King of Babylon' -- Creator and Accuser -- The Prince of Light and the Angel of Darkness. Chapter Two: The Time of Mixture -- Three Empires -- Syncretism in the East -- Mithras and Mediator -- Michael and Samael -- Demiurge and redeemer -- The Throne and the Altar -- The Prophet of Babylon -- The Father of Greatness and the Prince of Darkness -- The Diffusion of the 'Religion of Light' -- Heresiarch and Magus. Chapter Three: The Thread of the Great Heresy -- The Dualist Succession -- The Earth Diver and the Devil -- From the Steppes to the Balkans -- Kans and Emperors -- Paganism, Heresy and Christianity -- Rome, Constantinople and Theprice -- The Anniversary of Zoroaster -- The Descent of the 'Manichaean Darkness' -- The Riddle of Bogomil Beginnings -- The 'Time of Troubles' -- The Heresy in Anatolia -- The Three Principles of the Thracian Euchites -- The Crusades of Alexius Comnenus -- Trials in Constantinople -- Manuel Comnenus and Stefan Nemanja. Chapter Four: The Dualist communion -- Heresy in the West -- The Rise of Catharism -- The Council at St-Felix and the Dualist Churches -- The Schism -- Chapter Five: The Crusade Against Dualism -- Councils and Crusades -- Suppression and Resistance -- The Fall of Montsegur -- Rome and the Balkan Heresy -- The Decline of Catharism -- The Antipope -- The Bosnian Church and Ecclesia Sclavoniae -- The Hesychast Mystics and the Bogomils -- Heresy and Magic - East and West -- Heresy and Politics in Bosnia -- The Fate of Balkan Dualism. Chapter Six: Legends, Parables, and 'Secret Myths' -- Christ-Michael and Samael-Satan -- The Good God, the God of Evil and the Feminine -- Bethlehem and Capernaum -- Epilogue: The War of Labels.

Christian heresies -- History.

Stoyanov, Yuri, 1961- Hidden tradition in Europe.

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