So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke : The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burnham, Louisa A. (Louisa Anne), 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Olivi, Petrus Johannis.
Olivi, Pierre Jean, > 1248 or 1249-1298.
Languedoc
beguins > spirituels franciscains > France > sud > 14e s.
beguins > Languedoc (France) > 14e s.
Spiritualen
Beginen
Third orders.
Franciscan Spirituals.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Tiers ordres > France > Languedoc.
Third orders > France > Languedoc.
Franciscan Spirituals > France > Languedoc.
France > Languedoc.
Languedoc (France) > Church history.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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