Marina Benedetti, Università degli Studi, Milan (Italy) is Full Professor in the History of Christianity. She is the author of the monograph Il «santo bottino». Circolazione di manoscritti valdesi nell'Europa del Seicento (2007) and the editor of Valdesi medievali. Bilanci e prospettive di ricercar (2009).Euan Cameron is Professor of Reformation Church History in Union Theological Seminary, New York. On the Waldenses he has written The Reformation of the Heretics (1984) and Waldenses (2000). His other books address the Reformation, superstition, and the Bible.

• AcknowledgementsList of MapsAbbreviations Used in the NotesNote on ContributorsIntroductionMarina Benedetti and Euan CameronPart 1From Lyons to EuropeSection 1Origins and Early Diffusion (12th–13th Centuries)1 Valdo (or Valdesius) of Lyons and the Poor in SpiritGrado Giovanni Merlo2 A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries)Claire Taylor3 The Early Waldenses and the Catholic Poor in the Crown of Aragon (12th–13th Centuries)Damian J. Smith4 Religious Dissidence and Political Struggles in the Rhone Valley (13th Century)Jacques ChiffoleauSection 2Germany (13th–14th Centuries)5 Was Austria a Waldensian Heartland?Albert de Lange6 Waldenses in Bohemia, 13th‒16th CenturiesAlbert de Lange7 Waldenses by the BalticPeter Biller8 Western Germany Including StrasbourgGeorg Modestin9 Freiburg-in-UechtlandKathrin Utz TrempSection 3Piedmont, Provence and Dauphiné (14th–16th Centuries)10 Who Were the Waldenses in Fourteenth-Century Piedmont?Grado Giovanni Merlo11 Provence (14th–15th Century)Jacques Chiffoleau12 The Dauphiné (13th–14th Century)Euan Cameron13 The Dauphiné (15th–16th Century)Marina BenedettiPart 2Themes in Waldensian History14 On the Road: The Alpine Itinerant PreachersMarina Benedetti15 Women: A Silent Presence?Marina Benedetti16 Inquisitors’ Interrogations of WaldensesPeter Biller17 The ‘Waldensian Sect’: Heresy and WitchcraftFranck Mercier and Martine Ostorero18 Helping the Poor and Healing the SickPeter Biller19 1488: A Forgotten CrusadeMarina Benedetti20 Ancient Waldensian LiteratureLuciana Borghi Cedrini and Andrea Giraudo21 The Émigré Communities in Calabria and ApuliaEuan Cameron22 From the Reformation to the Past: Historical Perceptions of the Medieval Waldenses in ProtestantismEuan CameronIndex

Marina Benedetti, Università degli Studi, Milan (Italy) is Full Professor in the History of Christianity. She is the author of the monograph Il «santo bottino». Circolazione di manoscritti valdesi nell'Europa del Seicento (2007) and the editor of Valdesi medievali. Bilanci e prospettive di ricercar (2009).Euan Cameron is Professor of Reformation Church History in Union Theological Seminary, New York. On the Waldenses he has written The Reformation of the Heretics (1984) and Waldenses (2000). His other books address the Reformation, superstition, and the Bible.

• AcknowledgementsList of MapsAbbreviations Used in the NotesNote on ContributorsIntroductionMarina Benedetti and Euan CameronPart 1From Lyons to EuropeSection 1Origins and Early Diffusion (12th–13th Centuries)1 Valdo (or Valdesius) of Lyons and the Poor in SpiritGrado Giovanni Merlo2 A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries)Claire Taylor3 The Early Waldenses and the Catholic Poor in the Crown of Aragon (12th–13th Centuries)Damian J. Smith4 Religious Dissidence and Political Struggles in the Rhone Valley (13th Century)Jacques ChiffoleauSection 2Germany (13th–14th Centuries)5 Was Austria a Waldensian Heartland?Albert de Lange6 Waldenses in Bohemia, 13th‒16th CenturiesAlbert de Lange7 Waldenses by the BalticPeter Biller8 Western Germany Including StrasbourgGeorg Modestin9 Freiburg-in-UechtlandKathrin Utz TrempSection 3Piedmont, Provence and Dauphiné (14th–16th Centuries)10 Who Were the Waldenses in Fourteenth-Century Piedmont?Grado Giovanni Merlo11 Provence (14th–15th Century)Jacques Chiffoleau12 The Dauphiné (13th–14th Century)Euan Cameron13 The Dauphiné (15th–16th Century)Marina BenedettiPart 2Themes in Waldensian History14 On the Road: The Alpine Itinerant PreachersMarina Benedetti15 Women: A Silent Presence?Marina Benedetti16 Inquisitors’ Interrogations of WaldensesPeter Biller17 The ‘Waldensian Sect’: Heresy and WitchcraftFranck Mercier and Martine Ostorero18 Helping the Poor and Healing the SickPeter Biller19 1488: A Forgotten CrusadeMarina Benedetti20 Ancient Waldensian LiteratureLuciana Borghi Cedrini and Andrea Giraudo21 The Émigré Communities in Calabria and ApuliaEuan Cameron22 From the Reformation to the Past: Historical Perceptions of the Medieval Waldenses in ProtestantismEuan CameronIndex

Marina Benedetti, Università degli Studi, Milan (Italy) is Full Professor in the History of Christianity. She is the author of the monograph Il «santo bottino». Circolazione di manoscritti valdesi nell'Europa del Seicento (2007) and the editor of Valdesi medievali. Bilanci e prospettive di ricercar (2009).Euan Cameron is Professor of Reformation Church History in Union Theological Seminary, New York. On the Waldenses he has written The Reformation of the Heretics (1984) and Waldenses (2000). His other books address the Reformation, superstition, and the Bible.

• AcknowledgementsList of MapsAbbreviations Used in the NotesNote on ContributorsIntroductionMarina Benedetti and Euan CameronPart 1From Lyons to EuropeSection 1Origins and Early Diffusion (12th–13th Centuries)1 Valdo (or Valdesius) of Lyons and the Poor in SpiritGrado Giovanni Merlo2 A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries)Claire Taylor3 The Early Waldenses and the Catholic Poor in the Crown of Aragon (12th–13th Centuries)Damian J. Smith4 Religious Dissidence and Political Struggles in the Rhone Valley (13th Century)Jacques ChiffoleauSection 2Germany (13th–14th Centuries)5 Was Austria a Waldensian Heartland?Albert de Lange6 Waldenses in Bohemia, 13th‒16th CenturiesAlbert de Lange7 Waldenses by the BalticPeter Biller8 Western Germany Including StrasbourgGeorg Modestin9 Freiburg-in-UechtlandKathrin Utz TrempSection 3Piedmont, Provence and Dauphiné (14th–16th Centuries)10 Who Were the Waldenses in Fourteenth-Century Piedmont?Grado Giovanni Merlo11 Provence (14th–15th Century)Jacques Chiffoleau12 The Dauphiné (13th–14th Century)Euan Cameron13 The Dauphiné (15th–16th Century)Marina BenedettiPart 2Themes in Waldensian History14 On the Road: The Alpine Itinerant PreachersMarina Benedetti15 Women: A Silent Presence?Marina Benedetti16 Inquisitors’ Interrogations of WaldensesPeter Biller17 The ‘Waldensian Sect’: Heresy and WitchcraftFranck Mercier and Martine Ostorero18 Helping the Poor and Healing the SickPeter Biller19 1488: A Forgotten CrusadeMarina Benedetti20 Ancient Waldensian LiteratureLuciana Borghi Cedrini and Andrea Giraudo21 The Émigré Communities in Calabria and ApuliaEuan Cameron22 From the Reformation to the Past: Historical Perceptions of the Medieval Waldenses in ProtestantismEuan CameronIndex