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1173 AD Peter Waldo (orWaldes) forms the Poor of Lyon(Waldensians). He advocates areturn to early Christianity andopposes both traditional Christianityand Catharism (Cohn,Demons, 32).1175 AD Heretics at Verona areaccused of holding orgies in anunderground hall (Russell, 126).1179 AD The Third LateranCouncil condemns the spread ofhomosexuality among the clergy(Bailey, 127). Alan de Lille saysof certain heretics that in order torid themselves of concern for thebody they practice random sexualintercourse (Russell, 129; Cohn,Demons, 22)1182 AD Walter Map accusesheretics of holding orgies and ofkissing the genitals and ass hole of“a black cat of marsize” (Russell,131; 22 ff). of holding velousCohn, Demons, 22).1184 AD Pope Lucius IIIcondemns the Waldensians andauthorizes the use of inquisitorialmethods by bishops in tryingheretics (Wakefield, 44 &: 133).1190 AD Joachim of Florapreaches that there is no needfor law, government, or churches(Russell, 138).1206 AD Death of Amaury ofBene, leader of the Amaurians,a group of heretics who havetrances, claim miraculous powers,and say that everything that is, isGod (Cohn, Millennium, 157-161, 166). They are popularlycalled by names that are usuallyapplied only to women (Cohn,Millennium, 166; Lerner, 13).1208 AD Pope Innocent III,fearful of the Cathars of southernFrance (Albigensians), calls for acrusade to wipe them out (Wakefield,68).1209- 1229 AD A crusade iswaged against the Cathars ofsouthern France leading to abloody civil war and ending inthe overthrow of Cathar civilization(Wakefield, 97)1211 AD The Synod of Tirnovorepeats the definition of Bogomilismas a combination ofMassalianism and Paulicianism(Obolensky, 238).1212 AD The Council of Pariscondemns the occurrence of homosexualityamong the clergy(Bailey, 127).1214 AD The Council of Rouencondemns the occurrence ofhomosexuality among the clergy(Bailey, 127).1198 AD Lothar of Segni, a Romanaristocrat and a bitter foe ofheresy, becomes Pope InnocentIII, the strongest Pope in thehistory of the church (Wakefield,86).1200-1300 AD A new movementarises in which women andmen form sexually separate begginggroups that are independentof church control. They are calledbeguines and beghards (Lerner,passim).1221 AD Pope Gregory IX callsfor a crusade against rebellingpeasants in Germany (Wakefield,134).1222-1224 AD Gautier de Coincypublishes a poem claimingthat homosexuality is commonamong the beghards (Lerner, 39).1227 AD Pope Gregory IX issueshis bull Extravagantes, repro-16 157
(Wakefield and Evans, 75-81;Lerner, 33-34; Cohn, Demons,20-21; Russell, 86-87).1050 AD The Byzantine theologianMichael Psellus claims thatthe Massalians practice ritualsex orgies and worship the Devilas the brother of Christ (Obolensky,185-187). Catharism, aManichaean heresy derived fromBogomilism, spreads throughoutWestern Europe (Loos, 115).1054 AD Peter Damiani writeshis Liber Gomorrhianus, claimingthat homosexuality is spreadingat an alarming rate among theclergy (Bailey, 111-114).1091 AD Ordericus Vitalis tellsof popular beliefs in ghostly nightriders following “Harlechin” (Lea,v. I, 171).1100 AD Euthymius Zigabenusreports that the Bogomilism ofConstantinople is a mixture ofPaulicianism and Massalianism,and that it regards the Devil asthe brother of Christ (Obolensky,206-214; Loos, 67-70; Runciman,73-78).1112- 1220 AD Peter of Bruys, apriest influenced by heresies fromthe Balkans, criticizes the needfor an organized church or sacraments(Wakefield, 23).1114 AD Peasant heretics areuncovered at Suey-Ie-long andaccused of practicing rituallesbianism and male homosexuality.From this date on, charges ofritual samesex acts become commonplacein heresy trials (Russell,94-95 &: 95, note; Wakefieldand Evans, 102104; Runciman,120).1150 AD Catharism becomes entrenchedin Languedoc (southernFrance) and constitutes itself asan organized rival to traditionalChristianity (Wakefield, 3031).Geoffrey of Auxerre accuses theCathars of preaching free sex(Russell, 128).1150-1170 AD Heretics inGermany are accused of holdingorgies and of eating cum as a holyfood (Russell, 129).1156-1159 AD Philosopher Johnof Salisbury ridicules women whoclaim they ride out at night witha goddess (Grimm, 235; Cohn,Demons, 218219).1157 AD The Synod of Rheimscondemns spreading Catharism,accusing the Cathars of holdingsex orgies. It also complainsthat Manicheism is being spreadthroughout the diocese byitinerant weavers who condemnthe sacrament of marriage andencourage sexual promiscuity(Runciman, 121; Russell, 128;Loos, 117; Cohn, Millennium,153).1163 AD Hildegard of Bingenreports that there are heretics whoreject the sacrament of marriage,advocate sexual freedom, andsay that their god is not invisible(Cohn, Millenium, ISS). Elevenheretical weavers are burned atCologne for advocating sexualfreedom (Cohn, Millennium,153-154).1167 AD The Cathars hold alarge meeting at St. Felix deCaraman, near Toulouse, withrepresentatives from France, Italy,and Constantinople (Loos, 127&: Runciman, 72).JOAN OF ARC:TRANSVESTITE AND HERETICOn May 30, 1431, in the town of Rouen, France, a peasantwoman named Joan of Arc, age nineteen, was burned alive at thestake as a relapsed heretic. The immediate reason for her death wasthat she was found wearing men’s clothing in her prison cell. Thisfact about Joan’s execution may surprise those who view her as atraditional Christian saint. But the records of the time show she washardly traditional.After 1425, when she started her drive against the Englishinvaders of France, Joan of Arc was an adamant transvestite. On May23, 1430, she was captured by a sell-out French faction. They soldher to the English, who charged her with heresy and handed her overto the Inquisition. At the trial, Joan’s judges were horrified by hertransvestism. Article twelve of her indictment read:Jeanne, rejecting and abandoning women’s clothing, her haircut around like a young coxcomb, took shirt, breeches, doublet. . . tight-fitting boots or buskins, long spurs, sword, dagger,breast-plate, lance and other arms in fashion of a man ofwar (T. Douglas Murray, 345-346).When brought before the court, Joan refused to promise towear women’s clothing, even though her refusal meant she couldn’treceive communion. What’s more, she insisted that her transvestismwas a religious duty, saying: “For nothing in the world will I swearnot to arm myself and put on a man’s dress; I must obey the ordersof Our Lord” (T. Douglas Murray, 87).To the judges, it was bad enough that Joan had been wearingmen’s clothing. But to say this was a religious duty was heresy! Thefollowing was one of the chief charges brought against her:Jeanne attributes to God, His Angels, and His Saints, orderswhich are against the modesty of the sex, and which are prohibitedby the Divine Law, things abominable to God and man,interdicted on pain of anathema by ecclesiastical censure, suchas dressing herself in the garments of a man, short, tight, dissolute,those underneath as well as above . . . . To attribute all thisto the order of God, to the order which had been transmittedto her by the Angels and even by Virgin Saints, is to blasphemeGod and His Saints, to destroy the Divine Law and violate theCanonical Rules (T. Douglas Murray, 346).15617
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