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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818942803321

Autore

Field Sean L (Sean Linscott), <1970->

Titolo

The beguine, the angel, and the inquisitor : the trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart / / Sean L. Field

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012

ISBN

0-268-15859-2

0-268-07973-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Disciplina

272/.2092

Soggetti

Inquisition - France

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Mysticism - France - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Modern and Medieval Contexts -- Chapter 1: Background to a Beguine, Becoming an Angel -- Chapter 2: Seven Churchmen and a Beguine -- Chapter 3: The Inquisitor -- Chapter 4: First Steps -- Chapter 5: Philadelphia Story -- Chapter 6: Twenty-One Theologians and a Book -- Chapter 7: Toward the Stake -- Epilogue I -- Epilogue II -- Epilogue III -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Sean Field has produced a fresh, urgently needed account of one of the most famous heresy trials of the Middle Ages, that of Marguerite Porete.