The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246

by Mark Gregory Pegg

Book Overview

On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners, butchers and monks, concubines and physicians, blacksmiths and pregnant girls--in short, all men over fourteen and women over twelve--were summoned by Dominican inquisitors Bernart de Caux and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691123713
• ISBN13: 9780691123714
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"