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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2009
      May 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511581564
      9780521873598
      9780521182270
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511581564
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 234 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 234 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, Religion, European Studies, Church History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (73)
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, Religion, European Studies, Church History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (73)
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    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.

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    'Caterina Bruschi undertakes the seemingly quixotic task of attempting to recover the voices of Cathar heretics from amidst the historical and literary constructions of inquisitorial registers …ultimately, this portrayal of Catharism as a living, mobile, and nonconformist church rings true in the echoes of the individual voices that Bruschi has heard in her texts.'

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