Bogomilism

Founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil under Tsar Peter I in the tenth century, probably in Kutmichevitsa: a dualist movement holding that Satan made matter and God the soul, rejecting the cross, church buildings, the hierarchy, the sacraments and the state, holding the body itself as the temple; it spread through Byzantium, Serbia, Bosnia and, as the Cathars and the Bulgari, to Italy and France, and gave French and English the word bugger from Bulgarus. Identified with the Messalians in Greek and Slavonic documents of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, and hesychasm was accused of being a variant of it in the fourteenth. Sources: Cosmas the Priest's Sermon (Old Bulgarian), Euthymius Zigabenus's Panoplia, Obolensky. In RENAISSANCE 3.0 the Bulgarian name of the charge against the navel-gazers, and the case study for heresy as a circumval drawn around a competitor in the soul market.

· 930– · extinct · influence 7/10