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Inquisition and Power : Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc /

What should historians do with the words of the dead? Inquisition and Power reformulates the historiography of heresy and the inquisition by focusing on depositions taken from the Cathars, a religious sect that opposed the Catholic church and took root in southern France during the twelfth century....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arnold, John H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The lump and the leaven: the move to inquisition
  • To correct the guilty life: representation and knowledge
  • The construction of the confessing subject
  • Questions of belief: catharism and its context
  • Sex, lies, and telling stories: a critical and effective history
  • Conclusion.