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14 Maj 20257min
Inquisition, Part 8: Confession of Baruch, Once a Jew
The Jew Baruch recounts his forced baptism at the hands of the Pastoureaux.
31 Maj 202434min
Inquisition, Part 7: Stop Snitching
This is the epilogue to the episodes about Béatrice de Planissoles, in which she and other friends of ours return to denounce the archvillain--or hero?--Bernard Clergue. The material comes from the r...
17 Maj 202430min
Inquisition, Part 6: Béatrice de Planissoles (continued)
Béatrice de Planissoles continues to tell Bishop Jacques Fournier about her history with heresy, sorcery, sex, drugs, etc. Thank you to Professor Nancy Stork for her English translations of parts o...
10 Maj 202443min
Inquisition, Part 5: Béatrice de Planissoles
We look at the record of one woman's inquisition and use at as a lens to consider Montaillou, a small village that remained a bastion of Cathar heresy a century after the Albigensian crusade tried to ...
3 Maj 20241h 1min
Inquisition, Part 4: Ten Ruses
Ten Inquisitors' Ruses against the Tricks and Deceits of Heretics, from Nicholas Eymerich's Directorium Inquisitorum. Source: Inquisition in the Fourteenth Century: the Manuals of Bernard Gui and Nic...
26 Apr 202418min
Inquisition, Part 2: Saint Francis of Assisi
The church persecutes the Waldensians and Cathars but welcomes the Franciscans with open arms. Why?
12 Apr 202433min
