The Friar of Carcassonne
Heresy and Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars
(Sprache: Englisch)
Secret tribunals, illegal rendition, torture, trumped up charges ... all in a society controlled by fear. Such was the tenor of life in Languedoc around 1300. The dungeons housed hundreds of despairing innocents. The charge - heresy. This magnificent book,...
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Secret tribunals, illegal rendition, torture, trumped up charges ... all in a society controlled by fear. Such was the tenor of life in Languedoc around 1300. The dungeons housed hundreds of despairing innocents. The charge - heresy. This magnificent book, which forms a kind of sequel to Stephen O'Shea's best-selling THE PERFECT HERESY, tells the inspiring and tragic story of a Franciscan friar, Bernard Délicieux.
Autoren-Porträt von Stephen O'Shea
Stephen O'Shea is a Canadian writer and historian. His previous books on the history of the middle ages are this book's best-selling predecessor The Perfect Heresy: the Life and Death of the Cathars, 'popular history at its best' (Allan Massie) and Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World, described by Andrew Wheatcroft as 'a masterpiece'. Stephen O'Shea lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and France.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Stephen O'Shea
- 2011, 280 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 22,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 184668319X
- ISBN-13: 9781846683190
Sprache:
Englisch
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