So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke : : The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc /

So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke : : The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc / / Louisa A. Burnham.

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In So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke, Louisa A. Burnham takes us inside the world of a little-known heretical group in the south of France in the early fourteenth century. The Beguins were a small sect of priests and lay people allied to (and sharing many of the convictions of) the Spiritual Franci...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Burnham, Louisa A.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF MAPS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTE ON BEGUIN NAMES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Poverty and Apocalypse: Their Patron "Saint" and His Cult
  • 2. The Weapons of the Truly Weak
  • 3. An Urban Underground: Heresy in Montpellier (1318-1328)
  • 4. Heretics, Heresiarchs, and Leaders
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX: BURNINGS OF BEGUINS IN LANGUEDOC AND PROVENCE, 1318-1330
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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