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probably written by a follower or a local sympathizer of the Dulcinian
The "Anonymous Synchronous" is not generally treated as a Dulcinian sympathizer's work. The surviving text is openly hostile to Dolcino and modern scholarship describes it as a partisan, ecclesiastically aligned source.
Full reasoning
The claim conflicts with both the text of the Historia fratris Dulcini itself and modern scholarship on it.
The work's title and opening repeatedly describe Dolcino in strongly hostile terms: "maledictum et pessimum heresiarcham" ("cursed and worst heresiarch"), his followers as "perfidi" (perfidious), and his company as "pestifera" (pestiferous). That is not the language of a follower or local sympathizer.
A modern scholarly study by Jerry B. Pierce likewise describes the Historia as an openly partisan and inherently hostile source, written by someone who favored the existing ecclesiastical order and felt threatened by the Apostles. So the article's description of the text as probably written by a follower or sympathizer is backwards.
2 sources
- Historia fratris Dulcini heresiarche - bibliotheca Augustana
Historia sive Legenda nefandorum operum et malorum gestorum perpetratorum per maledictum et pessimum heresiarcham fratrem Dulcinum cum suis perfidis sequacibus ... venit ... cum sua pestifera comitiva.
- Poverty, Heresy, and the Apocalypse by Jerry B. Pierce
The title's reference to Dolcino as a "heresiarch" clearly indicates the Historia's openly partisan nature... the author ... favored the status quo of ecclesiastical hegemony ... This history of the Order ... is an inherently hostile source.