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At the turn of the 13th century the regional church in southern France was caught between the powerful forces of heresy, inquisition, and papal power. At this time southern France marked the locus of influential heretical movements. Parisian reformers and Cistercians blamed loca…

The wood-panel paintings created by the Franciscan order in the thirteenth century present a dramatic transition from a static, stoic Byzantine style to increasing degrees of naturalistic, realistic, emotional, and corporeal representations. As a driving force behind the iconogr…

Medieval French monk Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay teaches modern readers that the motivations and justifications for the thirteenth century Albigensian Crusade were thoroughly rooted in Christian Scripture. Rather than making a predictable attack on the Catholic Church, this disserta…