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THE

MEDIEVAL MANICHEE

THE

MEDIEVAL MANICHEE

A Study of the

Christian Dualist Heresy

STEVEN RUNCIMAN

CAMBRIDGE

UNIVERSITY PRESS

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no reproduction of any part may take place without the

written permission of Cambridge University Press.

First published 1947

Reprinted 1955

Reissued 1982

Reprinted 1984, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1999

Library of Congress catalogue card number: 82-4123

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Runciman, Steven

The medieval Manichee.

1. Dualism (Religion)

I. Title

273 BL.218

ISBN o 521 06166 o hardback

ISBN o 521 28926 2 paperback

Transferred to digital printing 2003

Foreword

I N the following pages I have attempted to trace the history of

the Dualist Tradition in Christianity from its Gnostic beginnings

to its final florescence in the later Middle Ages. Theologically

speaking, the title which I have given to the book is unjustifiable;

for Christian Dualism and Manichaeism were two distinct and

separate religions. But to the ordinary'Medieval churchman, in the

East as in the West, all Dualists were Manichaean; and I have used a

name that they would have found intelligible and natural. And

indeed in many ways this popular misnomer was reasonable, for the

Christian Dualists, though they would never have acknowledged

Mani's system, were fundamentally nearer to it than ever they were

to Medieval or Modern Christianity. I hope therefore that the

inaccuracy will be forgiven me, and that no one will open this book

hoping to find in it an exhaustive account of those true Manichaeans

who lingered on into the Middle Ages in the far-off recesses of

Turkestan.

The recent circumstances of the world and certain personal

handicaps have prevented me from having access to certain material

that I should have liked to consult and from handling more fully one

or two points on which I have touched. I must ask for indulgence

for such omissions. I do not, however, believe that they affect the

main argument. A certain unevenness of treatment in the various

chapters has been forced upon me by the nature of the evidence. If,

for example, I have dealt scantily with the theology of the Bosnian

Patarenes and amply with their political history, it is because we

know practically nothing of the former, whereas the latter provides

the key to the long existence of the church. On the other hand, it

would have been possible, from the plentiful records at our disposal,

to give a far fuller account of the French Cathars. But much of the

material there is redundant. I have therefore, to keep some propor-

tion in the book, selected from it what I considered to be essential

and relevant to the story.

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