This is a short and engaging study of an important and successful figure in thirteenth-century France, the radical reformer and bishop of �vreux, Philippe of Cahors.
In the thirteenth century, radical reformers - churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular rulers - undertook Hherculean efforts aimed at the moral reform of society. No principality was more affected by these impulses than France under its king, Louis IX or "Saint...