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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Blasphemy, heresy, apostasy

Heretics - The Other Side of Early Christianity (Paperback): Gerd Luedemann Heretics - The Other Side of Early Christianity (Paperback)
Gerd Luedemann
R739 Discovery Miles 7 390 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Inquisition and Medieval Society - Power, Discipline and Resistance in Languedoc (Hardcover): James B. Given Inquisition and Medieval Society - Power, Discipline and Resistance in Languedoc (Hardcover)
James B. Given
R1,742 Discovery Miles 17 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

James B. Given analyzes the inquisition in one French region in order to develop a sociology of medieval politics. Established in the early thirteenth century to combat widespread popular heresy, inquisitorial tribunals identified, prosecuted, and punished heretics and their supporters. The inquisition in Languedoc was the best documented of these tribunals because the inquisitors aggressively used the developing techniques of writing and record keeping to build cases and extract confessions.

Using a Marxist and Foucauldian approach, Given focuses on three inquiries: what techniques of investigation, interrogation, and punishment the inquisitors worked out in the course of their struggle against heresy; how the people of Languedoc responded to the activities of the inquisitors; and what aspects of social organization in Languedoc either facilitated or constrained the work of the inquisitors. Punishments not only inflicted suffering and humiliation on those condemned, he argues, but also served as theatrical instruction for the rest of society about the terrible price of transgression. Through a careful pursuit of these inquires, Given elucidates medieval society's contribution to the modern apparatus of power.

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