The Atheist's Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never ExistedUniversity of Chicago Press, 12 окт. 2012 г. - Всего страниц: 263 This intellectual history of a rumored book of heresy reveals a persistent undercurrent of atheism from the Middle Ages into the 18th century. In 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book—De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three Impostors—in which Frederick denounced Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad as impostors. Of course, Frederick denied the charge, and over the following centuries the story played out across Europe, with libertines, freethinkers, and other “strong minds” seeking a copy of the scandalous text. The fascination persisted until finally, in the eighteenth century, someone brought the purported work into actual existence—in not one but two versions, Latin and French. Although historians have debated the origins and influences of this most apocryphal book, there has not been a comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors. In The Atheist’s Bible, historian Georges Minois tracks the course of the book from its origins in 1239 to its most salient episodes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, introducing readers to the colorful individuals obsessed with possessing the legendary work—and the equally obsessive passion of those who wanted to punish people who sought it. Minois’s compelling account sheds much-needed light on the power of atheism, the threat of blasphemy, and the persistence of free thought during a time when the outspoken risked being burned at the stake. “[A] timely and elegant study…Readers who are intrigued or scandalized by the diatribes of Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens will discover in The Atheist’s Bible that, as that other Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun.”—Walter Stephens, author of Demon Lovers |
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Two The Hunt for the Author of a Mythical Treatise Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries | 35 |
Three The European Elites and Religious Imposture Seventeenth Century | 71 |
Four Debates on the Origin of Religions Second Half of the Seventeenth Century | 95 |
Discovery or Invention of the Treatise? 16801721 | 123 |
The Contents of a Blasphemy | 163 |
The Three Impostors in the Antireligious Literature of the Eighteenth Century | 191 |
Appendixes | 205 |
Notes | 209 |
Glossary of Names | 225 |
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