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The Participation Of Women Believers And The Family In Later Languedocian Catharism, 1300-1308, William Grant Edmundson
The Participation Of Women Believers And The Family In Later Languedocian Catharism, 1300-1308, William Grant Edmundson
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This master’s thesis means to contribute to scholarship on the nature of lived Catharism in later medieval Languedoc. The study uses depositions from the inquisition registers of Jacques Fournier and Geoffroy d’Ablis, as well as Bernard Gui’s Liber sententiarum (book of sentences) to examine and compare how men, women, and families who were friends, relatives, accomplices, believers, and defenders of Cathar perfecti (the Cathar spiritual elite) participated in and supported the sect during the “Authié revival” from 1300 to 1308 by means of a case study on the Benet family from Montaillou and Ax.
The study argues that although the …