BUONACCORSO (BONACURSUS) OF MILAN. - A figure of the second half of the 12th century, he served among the Cathar heretics of Milan as a teacher or doctor of their doctrine. Having returned to the faith, he publicly denounced the errors of the sect; at a time when the esoteric teaching of Catharism and its factions was known to outsiders only in fragments, the written Manifestatio of B. served as a basis for Catholic controversialists in compiling, between 1176 and 1190, a manual of scriptural refutation in which the errors of the Passagians (v.) and of the Arnaldists (v. ARNALDO da BRESCIA) are also combated. The brief but detailed exposition of B. constitutes a first and precious source both of the various doctrinal tenets of the Lombard Cathar currents and of their mythical representations.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Ilarino da Milano, La Manifestatio heresis catarorum quam fecit B. v secondo il cod. Ottob. lat. 136 della biblioteca Vaticana, in Aevum, 12 (1938), pp. 281-333.

Ilarino da Milano

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Buonaccorso (Bonacursus) of Milan

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