Heresy, Inquisition and Life Cycle in Medieval Languedoc

by Christopher Sparks

A fresh examination of the Cathar heresy, using the records of inquisitorial tribunals to bring out new details of life at the time.

Religion amongst ordinary men and women in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages is the subject of this book. Focusing on laypeople attached to the Cathar movement, it investigates the interplay between heresy and orthodoxy, and between spiritual and secular concerns, in people's lives, charting the ways in which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903153522
• ISBN13: 9781903153529
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"