The beguine, the angel, and the inquisitor : the trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart /
On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Grève in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite "called Porete," a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for punishment, and ordered that all copies of a boo...
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : modern and medieval contexts
- Background to a beguine, becoming an angel
- Seven churchmen and a beguine
- The inquisitor
- First steps
- Philadelphia story
- Twenty-one theologians and a book
- Toward the stake
- Epilogue I. An inquisition's end, the end of an inquisitor
- Epilogue II. The angel and the doctor
- Epilogue III. The Council of Vienne and beyond
- Appendix A. Translations of the trial documents
- Appendix B. Translations of other contemporary sources
- Appendix C. Translation of Arnau of Vilanova's Epistola ad gerentes zonam pelliceam.