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Author Bruschi, Caterina, 1968-

Title The wandering heretics of Languedoc / Caterina Bruschi
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., [73]
Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., v. 73.
Contents Introduction -- Stories and how to read them -- Catharism and its mobility -- Heretical itinerancy -- Patterns of fear and risk -- Conclusions (and starting points)
Summary How should historians read sources which record inquisitorial trials in the Middle Ages? How can we understand the fears felt by those on trial? By analysing six volumes of depositions in the trial of Cathar and Waldensian heretics in Languedoc between the late twelfth and the fourteenth century, in this book, Caterina Bruschi challenges old methodologies in the study of dissent. She examines the intrinsic narratological problems related to the sources and, using approaches from the social sciences, analyses the different fears felt by deponents and how those fears affected their actions and decisions. In so doing, she sheds light on itinerancy within the ecclesial structure of non-conformist movements and contextualises the problem of itinerancy as a benchmark for the definition of heresy. Focusing on the lives and attitudes of trial witnesses, this innovative account is a major contribution to our understanding of the nature of religious non-conformity in the Middle Ages
Notes Series no. from publisher Web site
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-214) and index
Notes English
Subject Albigenses -- France -- Languedoc
Christian heresies -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Inquisition -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- To 1500
Trials (Heresy) -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- To 1500
Nomads -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- To 1500
RELIGION -- History.
Albigenses
Christian heresies -- Middle Ages
Inquisition
Nomads
Trials (Heresy)
Häretiker
Mobilität
Katharer
Albigenser
Häresie
Languedoc (France) -- Church history
France -- Languedoc
Languedoc
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009008468
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