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So great a light, so great a smoke : the Beguin heretics of Languedoc /

In So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke, Louisa A. Burnham takes us inside the world of a little-known heretical group in the south of France in the early fourteenth century. The Beguins were a small sect of priests and lay people allied to (and sharing many of the convictions of) the Spiritual Franci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burnham, Louisa A. (Louisa Anne), 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Colección:Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Poverty and apocalypse : their patron "saint" and his cult
  • The weapons of the truly weak
  • An urban underground : heresy in Montpellier (1318-1328)
  • Heretics, heresiarchs, and leaders
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : burnings of Beguins in Languedoc and Provence, 1318-1330.