Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200-1300

selected sources translated and annotated by John H. Arnold and Peter Biller

Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200-1300 is an invaluable collection of primary sources in translation, aimed at students and academics alike. It provides a wide array of materials on both heresy (Cathars and Waldensians) and the persecution of heresy in medieval France. The book is divided into...

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Other Authors: Arnold, John, 1969- (Editor, Translator), Biller, Peter (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:Manchester medieval sources series
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Physical Description:xii, 521 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN(s):9780719081316 : hardback
9780719081323 : paperback
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editorial approach and conventions
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The translations:
  • I. Heretics' texts
  • Introduction to Part I
  • 1. Heretical Council of St-Félix
  • 2. Durand of Huesca, The Book against the Manichees
  • II. Chronicles
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 3. Robert of Auxerre on northern France
  • 4. Deeds of the Bishops of Auxerre
  • 5. Peter of Les Vaux-de-Cernay
  • Appendix A. Bernard of Simorre and the King of Aragon, 1203
  • Appendix B. Abjuration of Stephen of Servian, 1219
  • 6. Aubri of Trois-Fontaines on the Inquisitor Robert Lepetit
  • 7. Robert Lepetit's magic charter
  • 8. Matthew Paris
  • 9. Bernard Gui, On the Foundations and Priors of the Preachers' Convents in the Provinces of Toulouse and Provence
  • III. Treatises
  • Introduction to Part III
  • 10. Gerald of Wales
  • 11. The Albi Summa Auctoritatum
  • 12. William of Auxerre and theology
  • 13. Roland of Cremona on heretics' endurance
  • 14. Lucas of Tuy, On the Other Life (De Altera Vita)
  • 15. Rainerio Sacconi OP, Summa about, the Cathars and Poor of Lyon
  • IV. Sermons
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • 16. A sermon from c. 1200
  • 17. Stephen ofBourbon: tales about heresy
  • 18. Humbert of Romans on inquisition and heresy
  • 19. A sermon from Italy
  • V. Letters and papal bulls
  • Introduction to Part V
  • 20. Innocent III, bulls concerning La Charité-sur-Loire
  • A. Letter 35/6 from Innocent's fifth pontifical year, 1202/3
  • B. Letter 206 from Innocent III's tenth pontifical year, 1207/8
  • 21. Conrad of Porto's letter on Bartholomew of Carcassonne
  • 22. Gregory IX and the Inquisitor Robert Lepetit
  • A. Gaudemus ('We rejoice') (19 April 1233)
  • B. To the prior and Brother Robert of the Order of Preachers, of Paris (23 November 1234)
  • C. To Brother Robert, of the Order of Preachers (23 August 1235)
  • D. To the Bishop of Orléans and others (10 April 1236)
  • 23. Urban IV, regarding Robert Lepetit and La Charité in 1234/5 (bull of 25 October 1263)
  • 24. Urban IV, regarding Franciscan inquisitors in Provence (bull of 25 November 1263)
  • 25. Royal letters concerning inquisition
  • A. Louis IX, 14 October 1258
  • B. Royal commissioners, March 1261
  • 26. Two letters of Alphonse of Poitiers
  • A. To James Dubois, 13 January 1268
  • B. To the inquisitors Pons of Pouget and Stephen of Gâtine, 13 January 1268
  • 27. John Galand OP, Inquisitor 1282-93
  • A. Galand's prison instructions, 1282
  • B. The complaints of Carcassonne against John Galand, 1285
  • 28. Clement V's Commission to investigate inquisition, 1306
  • VI. Councils and statutes
  • Introduction to Part VI
  • 29. Council of Toulouse, 1229
  • 30. Edict of Count Raymond VII of Toulouse, 1233
  • 31. Council of Beziers, 1246
  • 32. Acts of the provincial chapters of the Dominican Order
  • VII. Legal consultations and inquisitors' manuals
  • Introduction to Part VII
  • 33. A legal consultation, 1235
  • 34. Council of Tarragona, 1242
  • 35. The Consilium of Guy Foulques
  • 36. Council of Narbonne, 1243/4
  • 37. Consultation of Béziers, 1246
  • 38. Formulae from a later inquisitor's handbook
  • 39. An inquisitorial manual: Instruction about the Way in which One should Proceed against Heretics
  • 40. Bernard Gui on perfecti
  • A. From On the Authority and Form of Inquisition
  • B. From Gui, Treatise on Practice
  • VIII. Inquisition trials
  • Introduction to Part VIII
  • 41. Raymond Jean of Albi, 1238: the Council of Pieusse and bishops
  • 42. Selections from the penances of Peter Seila, 1241-2
  • 43. Marquesa, the spy, 1243
  • 44. Helis of Mazerolles, 1243
  • 45. William Donaedeu of. Rives, 1244
  • Appendix: Sentence on William of Elves
  • 46. Imbert of Salles, 1244: Montségur and the massacre of the inquisitors at Avignonet
  • 47. Peter William d'Arvigna, 1246
  • 48. Depositions before Bernard of Caux and John of St-Pierre, 1245-6
  • Appendix: Sentence on Esclarmonda Bret
  • 49. Inquisition in Carcassonne, 1250-9
  • Register of the notary of the inquisition of Carcassonne, Part I
  • Register of the notary of the inquisition of Carcassonne, Part II
  • 50. The two confessions of Jordan of Saissac, 1279 (and 1244)
  • 51. The plot against inquisitorial archives, Carcassonne, 1284
  • 52. Bartholomew Vesian, regarding the Carcassonne appeal against the Inquisitor John Galand, 1291
  • 53. Anonymous tract, On the Way and Life … of the Poor of Lyon, c. 1800 (?)
  • 54. Peter of Gaillac of Tarascon, notary, 1308
  • 55. Guilt of the Sicre family, 1308-12
  • A. Guilt of William Sicre the younger, 1312
  • B. Guilt of Raymond Sicre, 1308
  • C. Guilt of Peter Sicre, 1308
  • D. Guilt of William Sicre the elder, 1308
  • 56. A renegade priest and Waldensians in Gascony, 1319
  • 57. Opposition to inquisition in the early fourteenth century
  • A. Charges against Bernard Délicieux, 1319
  • B. A witness to events in Carcassonne, 1319
  • Index.