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Dates Covered: 1290 - 1329
ISBN: 0375404902
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Our Take
It is one of the great ironies of history that our best record of everyday medieval life comes to us courtesy of an attempt by the Catholic church to erase a particular heresy from the earth. Those feisty Catholics did get away with what would today be called genocide -- there are no Albigensian heretics anymore. But the staff of the Inquisition kept an astonishingly complete record of the proceedings, and it is from these that Rene Weiss puts together a surprisingly comprehensive picture of life in France in the fourteenth century. After some initial academic posturing (100 pages), you can settle down to a really fascinating read. Highly recommended. Read More at Amazon.com
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