Dear
Professor Vasilev,
thank you
for pointing to me this review of your book by Norman Tanner. It states, among others, that
"[i]t is very useful to have the passages set side by side and the
similarities, regarding both ideas and language, are often striking. One
wonders, nevertheless, whether Lollards were drawing directly on Bogomil and
Cathar teachings, or whether, rather, the parallels result from a wider common
pool of ideas and expressions". I would indeed opt for the latter alternative.
What I
wanted to do at this moment and on this forum is to point out that the view of
Bogomil influence on Lollardy voiced in your e-mail is original rather than
representative of mainstream scholarship on Bogomil influences in the West as
far as I am aware of it. For the time being, I am happy with that. But the
question of influences is of course an intriguing one and I am
far from being the most deconstructionist scholar in the debate (normally, I
even defend some links between Italian dissidents in the 13th
century and the Balkans, against the view of much more radical - or more
critical? - scholars, e.g. Jean-Louis Biget). And you are of course right that
in order to arrive to any conclusive statements, it would be necessary to deal
with particular arguments (their content and their structure).
With all
best wishes,
David
Zbíral
Executive
Editor of Religio: Revue pro religionistiku
General
Secretary of the Czech Association for the Study of Religions
Department
for the Study of Religions
Masaryk
University
Arne Nováka
1
602 00 Brno
Czech
Republic
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Od: Georgi Vasilev <
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Datum: 30. 11. 2013
Předmět: Re: [M-R] Bogomil/Cathar influence on Lollardy
Dear D-r Zbiral,
you are voicing general statement, and, you know, eneral statement not a valid argument in science. In my book "Heresy and the England Reformation (Bogomil-Cathar Influence on Wycliffe, Langland, Tyndale
and Milton)" (USA, London - 2007) I am quoting a lot of facts, proving the relationship Bogomils-Cathars-Lollards. Please, see them, and then we can continue our discussion.
Sincerely:
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear
Professor Vasilev,
apart from
the fact that no such link is made in the original e-mail ("your assumption relating Albigensian movement to
the birth of Lollardy is quite correct" is an incorrect rendering of it),
I am afraid that such views on cultural influences of Bogomilism and Catharism
are extremely doubtful - not to mention critical scholarship reconsidering, if
not undermining, these categories themselves.
All the
best,
David
Zbíral
Executive
Editor of Religio: Revue pro religionistiku
General
Secretary of the Czech Association for the Study of Religions
Department
for the Study of Religions
Masaryk
University
Arne Nováka
1
602 00 Brno
Czech
Republic
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