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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2001.
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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.