This concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages examines the dynamic interplay between competing medieval notions of Christian obs

A fresh examination of the Cathar heresy, using the records of inquisitorial tribunals to bring out new details of life at the time.

Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound tog

The first book to deal with all the principal treatments of heresy and anti-heretical writings during their heyday in the thirteenth century. Heresy is always r

Exposes the inner workings of inquisitions in medieval France through expert translations of primary sources.