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Book The Friar of Carcassonne

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen O'Shea
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2011-10-04
  • ISBN : 0802778011
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Friar of Carcassonne written by Stephen O'Shea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1300, the French region of Languedoc had been cowed under the authority of both Rome and France since Pope Innocent III 's Albigensian Crusade nearly a century earlier. That crusade almost wiped out the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians whose beliefs threatened the authority of the Catholic Church. But decades of harrowing repression-enforced by the ruthless Pope Boniface VIII , the Machiavellian French King Philip the Fair of France, and the pitiless grand inquisitor of Toulouse, Bernard Gui (the villain in The Name of the Rose)-had bred resentment. In the city of Carcassonne, anger at the abuses of the Inquisition reached a boiling point and a great orator and fearless rebel emerged to unite the resistance among Cathar and Catholic alike. The people rose up, led by the charismatic Franciscan friar Bernard Délicieux and for a time reclaimed control of their lives and communities. Having written the acclaimed chronicle of the Cathars The Perfect Heresy , Stephen O'Shea returns to the medieval world to chronicle a rare and remarkable story of personal courage and principle standing up to power, amidst the last vestiges of the endlessly fascinating Cathar world. Praise for The Perfect Heresy : "At once a cautionary tale about the corruption of temporal power...and an accounting of the power of faith ...It is also just a darn good read."-Baltimore Sun "An accessible, readable history with lessons ...that were not learned by broad humanity until it saw 20th-century tyrants applying the goals and methods of the Inquisition on a universal scale."-New York Times

Book Theatrical Inquisitor

Download or read book Theatrical Inquisitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doctors  Folk Medicine and the Inquisition

Download or read book Doctors Folk Medicine and the Inquisition written by Timothy Walker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking monograph explores the fascinating social context of "witchcraft" trials in Portugal during the long eighteenth century, when conventional medical practitioners, motivated by a desire to promote "scientific" medicine, worked within the Holy Office to prosecute superstitious folk healers.

Book English Merchants and the Spanish Inquisition in the Canaries

Download or read book English Merchants and the Spanish Inquisition in the Canaries written by Inquisition. Canary Islands and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Salazar Documents  Inquisitor Alonso de Salazar Fr  as and Others on the Basque Witch Persecution

Download or read book The Salazar Documents Inquisitor Alonso de Salazar Fr as and Others on the Basque Witch Persecution written by Gustav Henningsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual edition of eye-witness reports on an early 17th-century witch panic or dream epidemic in the Basque country, written by a Jesuit, a Bishop, and a Spanish Inquisitor who analysed the phenomenon empirically from psychological and anthropological standpoints.

Book The Theatrical Inquisitor  Or  Monthly Mirror

Download or read book The Theatrical Inquisitor Or Monthly Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Inquisition of Francisca

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  • Author : Francisca de los Apóstoles
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2007-11-01
  • ISBN : 0226142256
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Inquisition of Francisca written by Francisca de los Apóstoles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a series of visions, Francisca de los Apóstoles (1539-after 1578) and her sister Isabella attempted in 1573 to organize a beaterio, a lay community of pious women devoted to the religious life, to offer prayers and penance for the reparation of human sin, especially those of corrupt clerics. But their efforts to minister to the poor of Toledo and to call for general ecclesiastical reform were met with resistance, first from local religious officials and, later, from the Spanish Inquisition. By early 1575, the Inquisitional tribunal in Toledo had received several statements denouncing Francisca from some of the very women she had tried to help, as well as from some of her financial and religious sponsors. Francisca was eventually arrested, imprisoned by the Inquisition, and investigated for religious fraud. This book contains what little is known about Francisca—the several letters she wrote as well as the transcript of her trial—and offers modern readers a perspective on the unique role and status of religious women in sixteenth-century Spain. Chronicling the drama of Francisca's interrogation and her spirited but ultimately unsuccessful defense, The Inquisition of Francisca—transcribed from more than three hundred folios and published for the first time in any language—will be a valuable resource for both specialists and students of the history and religion of Spain in the sixteenth century.

Book A History of the Inquisition of Spain

Download or read book A History of the Inquisition of Spain written by Henry Charles Lea and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vampirella  2011 2014  Vol  4  Inquisition

Download or read book Vampirella 2011 2014 Vol 4 Inquisition written by Brandon Jerwa and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Vampirella #21-26! Vampirella must defend her recent actions to a tribunal deep within Vatican City. Accused of falling to the corrupting influence of Chaos, she struggles to prove her innocence while simultaneously fighting a psychic battle with her most powerful enemy. Meanwhile, the vampire lord Dracula prepares his dark army for a march against humanity, empowering a terrifying new lieutenant to lead the charge.

Book Inquisition and Inquiry

Download or read book Inquisition and Inquiry written by Anne Mullen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the narrative form which figured prominently in Sciascia's literary production in the 1970s and 1980s, that is, inchiesta, the non-fiction investigative essay, based principally on Manzoni's Storia della colonna infame [The Column of Infamy]. In his inchieste Sciascia investigates episodes in history, from the time of the Inquisition through to his own contemporary times, where intolerance and injustice outmatch human weakness and fear. This study considers Sciascia's commingling of detective and investigative writing, and his attempts at historiography. One striking feature of his narrative technique is his reliance on literature to interpret the past.

Book The History of the Inquisition      with a Particular Description of Its Secret Prisons  Modes of Torture  Etc   Abridged from the     Work of P  L       Introduced by an Historical Survey of the Christian Church  Etc

Download or read book The History of the Inquisition with a Particular Description of Its Secret Prisons Modes of Torture Etc Abridged from the Work of P L Introduced by an Historical Survey of the Christian Church Etc written by Philippus van LIMBORCH and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women  Witchcraft  and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World

Download or read book Women Witchcraft and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World written by María Jesús Zamora Calvo and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Edited by María Jesús Zamora Calvo, this collection gathers innovative scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards. Ten essays present portraits of women who, under accusations as diverse as witchcraft, bigamy, false beatitude, and heresy, faced the Spanish and New World Inquisitions to account for their lives. Each essay draws on the documentary record of trials, confessions, letters, diaries, and other primary materials. Focusing on individual cases of women brought before the Inquisition, the authors study their subjects’ social status, particularize their motivations, determine the characteristics of their prosecution, and deduce the reasons used to justify violence against them. With their subjection of women to imprisonment, interrogation, and judgment, these cases display at their core a specter of contempt, humiliation, silencing, and denial of feminine selfhood. The contributors include specialists in the early modern period from multiple disciplines, encompassing literature, language, translation, literary theory, history, law, iconography, and anthropology. By considering both the women themselves and the Inquisition as an institution, this collection works to uncover stories, lives, and cultural practices that for centuries have dwelled in obscurity.

Book The Theatrical Inquisitor for

Download or read book The Theatrical Inquisitor for written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Inquisition Trial of Jer  nimo de Rojas  A Morisco of Toledo  1601 1603

Download or read book The Inquisition Trial of Jer nimo de Rojas A Morisco of Toledo 1601 1603 written by Mercedes García-Arenal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the whole text of an Inquisition trial of a Morisco (converted Muslim) of Toledo, Spain, condemned to burn at the stake. It is preceded by an introduction which studies the trial and shows the multifaceted aspects of the text and its protagonists.

Book A History of the Inquisition of Spain  Vol  1

Download or read book A History of the Inquisition of Spain Vol 1 written by Henry Charles Lea and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

Book The History of the Inquisition

Download or read book The History of the Inquisition written by Rev. J. Baker (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1734 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: