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Article: Inquisition and Power: Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc.(Book Review)
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- Church History
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By John H. Arnold. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. ix + 312 pp. $55.00 cloth.
John Arnold began his research with the intention of writing a history of later Catharism, but in the course of his investigations, he became more interested in the question of just how historians should interpret these medieval texts. Thanks to the historical profession's interest in postmodernism, few people nowadays would read a trial transcript from the Inquisition as a straightforward record of past speech. However, just how one should evaluate and use the material has never been the subject of systematic discussion. Drawing on printed and unpublished ...
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