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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Burnham, Louisa A. (Louisa Anne), 1964-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.