The hammer of the inquisitors : Brother Bernard Délicieux and the struggle against the inquisition in fourteenth-century France
"This work recounts the life and turbulent career of the fourteenth-century Occitan Franciscan, Fr. Bernard Delicieux. He was, in turn, a supporter of and then a traitor to the king of France, a last great leader of the Spiritual Franciscan movement, and above all an open opponent of the Inquisition." "The book examines, through this biography, the crisis of dissent and heresy in southern France and the rise of a unique popular movement to suppress the regime of the ecclesiastical Inquisition. It concludes with the destruction of the Spiritual Franciscans and the death of its subject at the Inquisitors' hands." "This book will interest those concerned with political or religious history."--Jacket
eBook, English, 2000
Brill, Leiden, 2000