The Friar of Carcassonne Revolt Against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars

by O'Shea, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780802719942
• ISBN10: 0802719945
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-27
• Publisher: Walker Books

Summary

Nearly a century had opassed since Languedoc had been put to the sword in the fiery Albigensian Crusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on the land in southern France. Any accusation of Catharism invited peril. But repression bred resentment, and in Carcassonne resistance began to stir. In 1300 a great orator emerged there and united the currents of resistance-a Franciscan friar named Bernard Delicieux. The forces ranged against him included the ruthless Pope Boniface VII, the Machiavellian French King Philip IV, and the grand inquisitor of Toulouse, Bernard Gui (the villain in The Name of the Rose). Having written the definitive chronicle of the Cathars, The Perfect Heresy, Stephen O'Shea returns to the medieval world to chronicle a remarkable story of personal courage and principle standing up to power, as he relates the last vestiges of the endlessly fascinating Cathar world.

Author Biography

Stephen O'Shea is an historian and the acclaimed author of Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World, The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars, and Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Table of Contents

Maps	p. ix
Usage	p. xiii
The Combatants	p. xv
Brother Bernard	p. 1
The World of Bernard Délicieux
The King's Men at the Door	p. 23
The Holy Office	p. 35
The Unholy Resistance	p. 52
The Years of Revolt
The Ambush at Carcassonne	p. 65
The Bishop of Albi	p. 73
The Dead Man of Carcassonne	p. 78
The Bishop of Pamiers	p. 85
The King at Senlis	p. 92
Aftermath	p. 101
The Weaver of Bruges	p. 106
The Sermon	p. 115
The Inquisitor Gives a Reading	p. 124
The Wall	p. 129
Torture Exposed	p. 135
The King and Queen in Languedoc	p. 143
Intrigue in the Roussillon	p. 156
The Time of Repression
Survival	p. 165
Cathars and Spirituals, Inquisitors and Conventuals	p. 174
The Trial	p. 187
Afterword	p. 203
Acknowledgments	p. 209
Notes	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 271
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