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Author O'Shea, Stephen.

Title The friar of Carcassonne : revolt against the inquisition in the last days of the Cathars / Stephen O'Shea.

Publication Info. New York : Walker & Co, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  272.2 O'SHEA    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description xxii, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-270) and index.
Contents The world of Bernard Délicieux -- The years of revolt -- The time of repression.
Summary 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.
Subject Bernard, Délicieux, frère, approximately 1260-approximately 1320.
Franciscans -- France -- Languedoc -- Biography.
Inquisition -- France -- Languedoc.
Albigenses -- France -- Languedoc -- History.
Languedoc (France) -- Church history.
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