Title: “Heresy and Millennial Ideas in Western Tradition: Exploring the Inquisition’s Activity against the Waldensians and the Success of Francis of Assisi’s Evangelical Quest”

Seperate the two prompts into two parts on the esssy. They are the same essay but two different prompts. 
1. What is heresy? What are millennial ideas?  Discuss in general the overall nature of heretical and apocalyptic movements in the western tradition and in detail one of the movements discussed by N. Cohn or presented in class.  How does heresy relate to mysticism? These topics will be discussed on Week IV. Please see the inquisitorial documents in the website readings. They deal with the Inquisition’s activity against the Waldensians.
2. Who was Francis of Assisi? What was his background, and how did it influence the direction of Franciscan spirituality?  Why was Francis’ evangelical quest so successful? What in his teaching and his ways appealed to other Christians and new converts? How were his teachings subversive (or where they?)? You need to make references to the Little Flowers and to the discussion of the Stigmata!