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The Corruption of Angels : The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246 / Mark Gregory Pegg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2001Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource : 1 mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691006567
  • 9781400824755
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 272/.2/0944736 21
LOC classification:
  • DC83.3 .P44 2001eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Two Hundred and One Days -- 2. The Death of One Cistercian -- 3. Wedged between Catha and Cathay -- 4. Paper and Parchment -- 5. Splitting Heads and Tearing Skin -- 6. Summoned to Saint-Sernin -- 7. Questions about Questions -- 8. Four Eavesdropping Friars -- 9. The Memory of What Was Heard -- 10. Lies -- 11. Now Are You Willing to Put That in Writing? -- 12. Before the Crusaders Came -- 13. Words and Nods -- 14. Not Quite Dead -- 15. One Full Dish of Chestnuts -- 16. Two Yellow Crosses -- 17. Life around a Leaf -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED -- INDEX
Summary: On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners, butchers and monks, concubines and physicians, blacksmiths and pregnant girls--in short, all men over fourteen and women over twelve--were summoned by Dominican inquisitors Bernart de Caux and Jean de Saint-Pierre. In the cloister of the Saint-Sernin abbey, before scribes and witnesses, they confessed whether they, or anyone else, had ever seen, heard, helped, or sought salvation through the heretics. This inquisition into heretical depravity was the single largest investigation, in the shortest time, in the entire European Middle Ages. Mark Gregory Pegg examines the sole surviving manuscript of this great inquisition with unprecedented care--often in unexpected ways--to build a richly textured understanding of social life in southern France in the early thirteenth century. He explores what the interrogations reveal about the individual and communal lives of those interrogated and how the interrogations themselves shaped villagers' perceptions of those lives. The Corruption of Angels, similar in breadth and scope to Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou, is a major contribution to the field. It shows how heretical and orthodox beliefs flourished side by side and, more broadly, what life was like in one particular time and place. Pegg's passionate and beautifully written evocation of a medieval world will fascinate a diverse readership within and beyond the academy.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Two Hundred and One Days -- 2. The Death of One Cistercian -- 3. Wedged between Catha and Cathay -- 4. Paper and Parchment -- 5. Splitting Heads and Tearing Skin -- 6. Summoned to Saint-Sernin -- 7. Questions about Questions -- 8. Four Eavesdropping Friars -- 9. The Memory of What Was Heard -- 10. Lies -- 11. Now Are You Willing to Put That in Writing? -- 12. Before the Crusaders Came -- 13. Words and Nods -- 14. Not Quite Dead -- 15. One Full Dish of Chestnuts -- 16. Two Yellow Crosses -- 17. Life around a Leaf -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED -- INDEX

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On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners, butchers and monks, concubines and physicians, blacksmiths and pregnant girls--in short, all men over fourteen and women over twelve--were summoned by Dominican inquisitors Bernart de Caux and Jean de Saint-Pierre. In the cloister of the Saint-Sernin abbey, before scribes and witnesses, they confessed whether they, or anyone else, had ever seen, heard, helped, or sought salvation through the heretics. This inquisition into heretical depravity was the single largest investigation, in the shortest time, in the entire European Middle Ages. Mark Gregory Pegg examines the sole surviving manuscript of this great inquisition with unprecedented care--often in unexpected ways--to build a richly textured understanding of social life in southern France in the early thirteenth century. He explores what the interrogations reveal about the individual and communal lives of those interrogated and how the interrogations themselves shaped villagers' perceptions of those lives. The Corruption of Angels, similar in breadth and scope to Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou, is a major contribution to the field. It shows how heretical and orthodox beliefs flourished side by side and, more broadly, what life was like in one particular time and place. Pegg's passionate and beautifully written evocation of a medieval world will fascinate a diverse readership within and beyond the academy.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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