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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 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 3: Detection, Interrogation, Sentencing
Essential listening for newly hired medieval inquisitors. Music thanks to Verbum Gloriae https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOY2Hj4AbsnEfaQDvxQvnAg "Exultemus et laetemus" - Responsorial chant for P...
19 Apr 202429min
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
