Inquisition, Part 8: Confession of Baruch, Once a Jew
14th Century Europe
The Jew Baruch recounts his forced baptism at the hands of the Pastoureaux.
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Inquisition, Part 7: Stop Snitching
14th Century Europe
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 record of Bernard Clergue's trial in the Fournier Register. For some of the context, I am indebted to the incredibly detailed research of René Weis, whose book The Yellow Cross answered almost all my questions about the Fournier Register. Thank you to Professor Nancy Stork for her English translations of parts of the Fournier register, which you can find at the links...
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Inquisition, Part 6: Béatrice de Planissoles (continued)
14th Century Europe
Béatrice de Planissoles continues to tell Bishop Jacques Fournier about her history with heresy, sorcery, sex, drugs, etc. Thank you to Professor Nancy Stork for her English translations of parts of the Fournier register, which you can find at the links below. Beatrice's trial: Barthelemy's trial (Beatrice's most recent boyfriend): Grazide's trial (the girl whose husband didn't object to her affair with the priest, Pierre Clergue): Still more trials: (The woman who called Beatrice "eyebrowy," named Alazaïs Azéma, was also put on trial,...
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Inquisition, Part 5: Béatrice de Planissoles
14th Century Europe
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 eliminate it. Thank you to Professor Nancy Stork for her English translations of parts of the Fournier register, which you can find at the links below. Beatrice's trial: Barthelemy's trial (Beatrice's most recent boyfriend): Grazide's trial (the girl whose husband didn't object to her affair with the priest, Pierre Clergue): Still more trials: ...
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Inquisition, Part 4: Ten Ruses
14th Century Europe
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 Nicholas Eymerich by Derek Hill. Music thanks to Verbum Gloriae "Exultemus et laetemus" - Responsorial chant for Paschaltide. "Ego sum Alpha et O" - Antiphon for Paschaltide.
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Inquisition, Part 3: Detection, Interrogation, Sentencing
14th Century Europe
Essential listening for newly hired medieval inquisitors. Music thanks to Verbum Gloriae "Exultemus et laetemus" - Responsorial chant for Paschaltide. "Ego sum Alpha et O" - Antiphon for Paschaltide.
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Inquisition, Part 2: Saint Francis of Assisi
14th Century Europe
The church persecutes the Waldensians and Cathars but welcomes the Franciscans with open arms. Why?
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Inquisition, Part 1: Cathar and Waldensian Heresies
14th Century Europe
In this first part of a miniseries about the medieval inquisition, we learn about Cathar dualists, Waldensian lay preachers, and the vita apostolica.
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Chapter 15: The Emperor in Paris
14th Century Europe
The Holy Roman Emperor's dying wish was to visit the King of France. Also, we explore the tradition of drama that evolved from the Mysteries and Miracle Plays. Music thanks to Verbum Gloriae "Exultemus et laetemus" - Responsorial chant for Paschaltide. "Ego sum Alpha et O" - Antiphon for Paschaltide.
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Chapter 14: England's Turmoil
14th Century Europe
It's 1376-77. The Commons makes a splash in England's Parliament, King Edward III dies, and we trace the development of proto-nationalism in France and England. Music thanks to Verbum Gloriae "Exultemus et laetemus" - Responsorial chant for Paschaltide. "Ego sum Alpha et O" - Antiphon for Paschaltide.
info_outlineThe rules of courtly love, according to Andreus Capellanus:
- Marriage is no real excuse for not loving
- He who is not jealous cannot love
- No one can be bound by a double love
- It is well known that love is always increasing or decreasing
- That which a lover takes against the will of his beloved has no relish
- Boys do not love until they arrive at the age of maturity
- When one lover dies, a widowhood of two years is required of the survivor
- No one should be deprived of love without the very best of reasons
- No one can love unless he is impelled by the persuasion of love
- Love is always a stranger in the home of avarice
- It is not proper to love any woman whom one would be ashamed to seek to marry
- A true lover does not desire to embrace in love anyone except his beloved
- When made public love rarely endures
- The easy attainment of love makes it of little value; difficulty of attainment makes it prized
- Every lover regularly turns pale in the presence of his beloved
- When a lover suddenly catches sight of his beloved, his heart palpitates
- A new love puts to flight an old one
- Good character alone makes any man worthy of love
- If love diminishes, it quickly fails and rarely revives
- A man in love is always apprehensive
- Real jealousy always increases the feeling of love
- Jealousy, and therefore love, are increased when one suspects his beloved
- He whom the thought of love vexes eats and sleeps very little
- Every act of a lover ends in the thought of his beloved
- A true lover considers nothing good except what he thinks will please his beloved
- Love can deny nothing to love
- A lover can never have enough of the solaces of his beloved
- A slight presumption causes a lover to suspect his beloved
- A man who is vexed by too much passion usually does not love
- A true lover is constantly and without intermission possessed by the thought of his beloved
- Nothing forbids one woman being loved by two men or one man by two women
Music thanks to Verbum Gloriae
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"Exultemus et laetemus" - Responsorial chant for Paschaltide.
"Ego sum Alpha et O" - Antiphon for Paschaltide.