BOGOMILS

bōˈgōmĭlz, members of Europe's first great dualist church, which flourished in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 10th to the 15th cent. Their creed, adapted from the Paulicians and modified by other Gnostic and Manichaean sources, is attributed to Theophilus or Bogomil, a Bulgarian priest of the 10th cent. The movement was intensely nationalistic and political, as well as religious, and reflected resentment of Byzantine culture, Slavic serfdom, and imperial authority. They vanished due to persecution and the expansion of Islam, but bits of their ideas and folklore persisted for centuries in Slavic lands.

See M. Loos, Dualist Heresy in the Middle Ages (1974).

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Heresies of the High Middle Ages
Book by Walter L. Wakefield, Austin P. Evans; Columbia University Press, 1991
Subjects: Europe--Church History--600-1500--Sources, Heresies, Christian--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources
...meaning is preferred by Obolensky, The Bogomils , p. 117, n. 4, and pp. 119-20...date and place, see Obolensky, The Bogomils , pp. 117-20, 137- 43, 151-56...pp. 73- 74, and Obolensky, The Bogomils , pp. 117-38. 55. On the question...
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The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire
Book by J. M. Hussey; Clarendon Press, 1990
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--Church History, Orthodox Eastern Church--Byzantine Empire
...Cosmas also stressed another danger. The Bogomils had no respect for the established temporal...stood together and the teaching of the Bogomils, if carried to its logical conclusion...84 Already in the previous century the Bogomils had spread rapidly throughout the old...
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The Bosnian Muslims: Denial of a Nation
Book by Francine Friedman; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Bosnia And Hercegovina--Ethnic Relations, Muslims--Bosnia And Hercegovina--Ethnic Identity, Nationalism--Bosnia And Hercegovina
...asserted the existence in Bosnia of the Bogomils, a heretical dualist sect -- that is...it eventually reached Bosnia. The Bogomils reviled the concept of the church as...the principles of good and evil. The Bogomils denied Gods rule over all facets of life...
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Digenes Akrites
Book; Clarendon Press, 1956
Subjects: Digenis Akritas (Legendary Character) In Literature, Epic Poetry, Byzantine--History And Criticism
...the Iconoclasts, the Manichaeans, the Bogomils, and the Albigenses. Anna Comnena, who...Of the connexion between Paulicians and Bogomils no doubt is possible, for colonies of Bogomils in Turkey were sometimes called Paulicians...
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Saints and Revolutionaries: The Ascetic Hero in Russian Literature
Book by Marcia A. Morris; State University of New York Press, 1993
Subjects: Ascetics In Literature, Heroes In Literature, Revolutionaries In Literature, Russian Literature--History And Criticism, Saints In Literature
...Theophylacts letter, in which he describes the Bogomils, is analyzed in Obolensky, The Bogomils , pp. 113-14. 35. For a more complete description of the moral teachings of the Bogomils, see Cosmas Sermon Against the Heretics...
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Sir Dimitri Obolensky
Journal article by Simon Franklin; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 148, 2004
Subjects: Obolensky, Dimitri, Personal profiles, Writers
...by Cambridge University Press as The Bogomils. A Study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism...the last few years of his life). The Bogomils gave adequate notice of Dimitris credentials...his death on 23 December 2001. Between Bogomils and Commonwealth Dimitri published a...
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Religion in Turkey
Journal article by Niyazi Oktem; Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2002, 2002
Subjects: Freedom of religion, Islam, Legislation, Social conditions & trends, Turkey
...the Feast of St. George.80 Many centuries ago, the local Bogomils refused to abandon this saint when they converted to Islam...Muslims were once equally heterodox Christians-Manichean Bogomils. Mani or Manes was born in Southeast Anatolia in A.D. 216...
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Late Dorn
Journal article by Keith Tuma; Chicago Review, Vol. 49/50, 2004
Subjects: Dorn, Edward, Literary criticism, Poetry, Writers
...stubborn or too far gone to surrender to the insidious and overt machinations of government and ideology. His interest in Bogomils and Cathars (see "Bogumil" and "Albi, A Day Trip" in High West Rendezvous) suggests a political gnosticism that posits...
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A Brief History of Heresy
Journal article by A.G. Traver; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004
Subjects: A Brief History of Heresy (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...that figures and the movements contained therein are treated in a very cursory manner. The medieval dualists (Paulicians, Bogomils, Cathars) receive very little treatment, and the whole vita apostolica movement of the twelfth century is largely omitted...
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Quest for Selfhood and Dystopia in Valerii Shevchuk's Eye of the Abyss
Journal article by Svitlana Kobets; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 48, 2006
Subjects: Faith, Novels, Pilgrims, Shevchuk, Valerii, Utopias
...discerning the heretical nature of the sect. For like other heretical apocalyptical sects-Gnostics, Syrian Monophysits, Bogomils and flagellants (khlysls)-Simeons sect categorically denies the validity of personal love, family, creativity, joy...
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The Basics on Bosnia: Putting Some Myths to Rest
Magazine article by Richard H. Curtiss; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XIV, January 31, 1996
Subjects: Armed forces, Bosnia, International relations, Politics, War
...Empire. The Bosnian Muslims are the direct descendents of the Bogomils, an indigenous Christian group. Because they were persecuted...Christian neighbors, who did not allow them to own land, the Bogomils welcomed the conquering Ottoman Turks and converted voluntarily...
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A Fable for Our Time
Magazine article by Stephen Schwartz; New Criterion, Vol. 20, October 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, The Cathars (Book)--Reviews, The Other God (Book)--Reviews, The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Albigensians (Book)--Reviews, The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329 (Book)--Reviews
...morality? Were they connected with allegedly heretical, ostensibly dualist phenomena in Balkan Christendom--the Bulgarian Bogomils and the mysterious Bosnian Church? Any serious discussion of the Albigensians must unfortunately begin with the recognition...
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Fish, Flesh and Foul
Magazine article by Steven G. Kellman; American Scholar, Vol. 69, Autumn 2000
Subjects: Diet--Psychological aspects, Vegetarianism--Social aspects, Vegetarians--Social aspects
...Manichaean, the doctrine was not entirely eradicated, and when it resurfaced in the eleventh century with the steak-spurning Bogomils, many were in fact burned at the stake. When Manichaeanism spread to Asia, so did persecution, as evidenced by an edict...
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The New Epicureans
Magazine article by Kenneth Minogue; New Criterion, Vol. 20, September 2001
Subjects: Ethics--Analysis, Self-realization--Philosophy, Social values--Analysis
...evil world. The very etymology of the term "bugger" derives from a tenth-century gnostic sect in the Balkans called the "Bogomils.") There is a remarkable modernity about Lucretius. He would have made a superb counselor. He attributed most of the unhappiness...
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Despite U.s.-european Sellout, Republic of Bosnia Refuses to Die
Magazine article by Richard H. Curtiss; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XII, January 31, 1994
Subjects: Armed forces, Bosnia, Foreign policy, Government, International relations, War
...of Albanian stock, some with Ottoman Turkish antecedents and some Slavic descendants of Eastern European Christians (the Bogomils) who converted en masse to Islam under Ottoman protection centuries ago. Pressure toward the breakup was augmented by the...
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Blood Thirsty Europe; LETTERS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 14, 2006
...in Germany and Turks in Anatolia. After 1202, Innocent III annihilated the inhabitants of Zadar and Constantinople, the Bogomils in the Baltic States and 20,000 Cathars at Beziers. Between 1234 and 1836, St Dominics Inquisition tortured to death more...
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GOD'S TORTURERS; Its Victims Were Torn Apart on the Rack, Gouged with Red-Hot Pincers and Burnt at the Stake in Their Thousands. and as a New Documentary Reveals, the Cruelties of the Inquisition Lasted Even into the 20th Century
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 21, 2006
...village of Montaillou in the 1320s. But new heretical sects continued to offer themselves as targets for the Inquisition. Bogomils, Waldensians, Hussites - they all had in common a belief that the Church should return to the poverty and simplicity of its...
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Life on the Ground in Montaillou
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, May 20, 2001
...Cathars do it? Their name comes from the Greek "katharos" meaning pure, and they resemble sects such as the Paulinians and Bogomils further to the European east. Groups of Cathars appeared in Germany, Flanders and northern Italy during the first half of...


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encyclopedia articles on: Bogomils  - 9 results

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Bogomils
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BOGOMILS bo gomilz, members of Europes first great dualist church, which flourished in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 10th to the 15th...
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Ivan II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...encouraged the settlement of Ragusan merchants. For his repudiation (1232) of the union with Rome and his support of the heretic Bogomils, he was excommunicated (1236) by Pope Gregory IX. Ivan II was succeeded by his sons Kaliman I, who reigned 1241 46, and...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...known as Herzegovina. During this period the region was weakened by religious strife among Roman Catholics, Orthodox, and Bogomils . Thus disunited, Bosnia fell to the Turks in 1463. Herzegovina held out until 1482, when it too was occupied and joined...
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Albigenses
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...adherents of a doctrine similar to the Manichaean dualistic system of material evil and spiritual good (see Manichaeism ; Bogomils ). They held the coexistence of these two principles, represented by God and the Evil One, light and dark, the soul and...
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Plovdiv
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Armenian Paulicians there. Destroyed (early 13th cent.) by the Bulgarians, Plovdiv later became the center of the Bogomils . It was occupied by the Greeks in 1262 and was captured by the Turks c.1360. The city passed to Russia in 1877 and became...
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