Casaubon was the most interesting man she had ever seen, not excepting even Monsieur Liret, the Vaudois clergyman who had given conferences on the history of the
Waldenses. To reconstruct a past world, doubtless with a view to the highest purposes of truth--what a work to be in any way present at, to assist in, though only as a lamp-holder!
They, of course, are Walden all over and all through; are themselves small Waldens in the animal kingdom,
Waldenses. It is surprising that they are caught here -- that in this deep and capacious spring, far beneath the rattling teams and chaises and tinkling sleighs that travel the Walden road, this great gold and emerald fish swims.
(22) With the Petrobrusians and the Arnoldists in the twelfth century, Newman found a form of Christianity he believed could be regarded as "measurably conformable to the apostolic standard." (23) The
Waldenses and their related groups followed the Petrobrusians and the Arnoldists, leading eventually to Wycliff and Hus.
(11) Gabriel Audisio, translated by Claire Davison, The Waldensian Dissent: Persecution and Survival, c.1170-c.1570 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Giorgio Tourn, You Are My Witnesses : The Waldensians Across 800 Years, (Friendship Press, 1989); Paul Tice, History of the
Waldenses from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
as the Romans, Greeks, Georgians, Lutherans, Zwinglians,
Waldenses,
Concerning whom Chelcicky read, Atwood, quoting Molnar and Spinka, proposes three influences: the writings of the
Waldenses, although these with only a direct reference, John Wyclif and the Hussite literature.
When the Inquisition in all its fury attempted to annihilate all opposition, although publicly targeting the offspring of Abraham, the Jews and the Arabs, the main target again was those who held Scripture as the truth from God, believing in a 24hour 6 day creation with a 7th day Sabbath; the Germanic
Waldenses, Albigenses, Huguenots and other tribes in northern Italy and papal states.
(25) For more see Euan Cameron,
Waldenses: rejections of holy church in medieval Europe, Oxford, Blackwell, 2000, pp.
It was this unchecked freedom within urban areas that gave rise to the
Waldenses in France and the Humiliati of Lombardy.
Overshadowed by crusade-inspiring Cathars, and more evanescent than
Waldenses, Beguins--Franciscan tertiaries, lay adherents of the order's Spiritual wing--have attracted scholarly interest in lamentable disproportion to the acute attention they received from inquisitors in southern France during a brief period in the fourteenth century.