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The corruption of angels : the great Inquisition of 1245-1246 / Mark Gregory Pegg.
LIBRA DC83.3 .P44 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pegg, Mark Gregory, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Albigenses.
- Inquisition.
- Lauragais (France)--Church history.
- Lauragais (France).
- Inquisition--France--Lauragais.
- France--Church history--987-1515.
- France.
- Church history.
- France--Lauragais.
- Penn Provenance:
- Peters, Edward, 1936- (donor) (Lea copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 238 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- "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 Jean de Saint-Pierre. In the cloister of the Saint-Sernin abbey, before scribes and witnesses, they confessed, whether they, or anyone else, had ever seen, heard, helped, or sought salvation through the heretics. This inquisition into heretical depravity was the single largest investigation, in the shortest time, in the entire European Middle Ages." "Mark Gregory Pegg examines the sole surviving manuscript of this great inquisition with unprecedented care - often in unexpected ways - to build a richly textured understanding of social life in southern France in the early thirteenth century." --book jacket.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-217) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Edward Peters.
- Lea Library copy has dustjacket retained.
- Lea Library copy has Dr. Edward Peters's letter to Princeton Press, recommending the publishing of this book, laid in.
- Lea Library copy has Michael Ryan's e-mail to Prof. Edward Peters laid in. The e-mail contains a review of "The corruption of angels" by James B. Given.
- Lea Library copy has Peter Biller's and James B. Given's reviews of this book laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0691006563
- 9780691006567
- OCLC:
- 44727737
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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