The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor: The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart - Softcover

Field, Sean L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268028923 ISBN 13: 9780268028923

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012

Synopsis

The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Greve in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite "called Porete," a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for punishment, and ordered that all copies of a book she had written be confiscated. William next consigned Guiard of Cressonessart, an apocalyptic activist in th... Full description

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"This clearly written account of the trials of Marguerite Porete and her less-known supporter Guiard of Cressonessart both corrects misconceptions in the scholarly literature and offers a thick description of the intellectual, cultural, and political context in which these religious dissidents and the inquisitor William of Paris operated." --Choice

With The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor Sean Field has confirmed his place as one of the best scholars now working on French history in the High Middle Ages. His skill as a reader and translator of unpublished texts, the precision and good sense of his arguments, and the meticulous care with which he integrates the scattered insights gleaned from his predecessors' work, while also ferreting out and correcting their errors where necessary, make this one of the most important recent books in medieval studies. Field also has a gift for storytelling--and in Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart he has two figures whose stories are worth telling. Even the most admired experts in the fields of medieval canon law, theology, gender, and heretical movements will find this book a sparkling revelation.--William Chester Jordan, Princeton University

About the Author:

Sean L. Field is associate professor of history at the University of Vermont. He is the editor and translator of The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt: The Life of Isabelle of France and the Letter on Louis IX and Longchamp and author of Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century, both published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0268028923
• ISBN 13: 9780268028923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 420