"The author analyzes the inquisition in one French region in order to develop a sociology of medieval politics. Established in the early thirteenth century to combat widespread popular heresy, inquisitorial tribunals identified, prosecuted, and punished heretics and their suppor…
"Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal government eliminated so-called private warfare, the French judicial archives reveal nearly one hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and the Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end of the fourteenth century. Royal admini…
By analyzing six volumes of depositions in the trial of Cathar and Waldensian heretics in Languedoc between the late 12th and the 14th century, Caterina Bruschi challenges old methodologies in the study of dissent.