Nearly a century had passed since Languedoc had been put to the sword in the Albigensian Crusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on the land. Any accusation of Catharism invited peril. But repression bred resentment and it was in Carcassonne that resistance began to stir. In 1300 a great orator emerged who brought together the currents of resistance. Three years later the terrible prisons were stormed and the inmates set free. The orator was a Franciscan friar, Bernard Délicieux. The forces ranged against Delicieux included the ruthless Pope Boniface VII, the Machiavellian French King Philip IV and the grand inquisitor of Toulouse Bernard Gui (the villain of 'The Name of the Rose'). This magnificent book, which forms a kind of sequel to Stephen O'Shea's bestselling 'The Perfect Heresy', tells his inspiring life and tragic story.
Author(s): Stephen O'Shea
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 304
City: Vancouver
Maps
Usage
The Combatants
BROTHER BERNARD
I. THE WORLD OF BERNARD DÉLICIEUX
1. THE BRIDGE AT ROME
2. THE KING’S MEN AT THE DOOR
3. THE HOLY OFFICE
4. THE UNHOLY RESISTANCE
II. THE YEARS OF REVOLT
1299
5. THE AMBUSH AT CARCASSONNE
1300
6. THE BISHOP OF ALBI
7. THE DEAD MAN OF CARCASSONNE
1301
8. THE BISHOP OF PAMIERS
9. THE KING AT SENLIS
1302
10. AFTERMATH
11. THE WEAVER OF BRUGES
1303
12. THE SERMON
13. THE INQUISITOR GIVES A READING
14. THE WALL
15. TORTURE EXPOSED
1304
16. THE KING AND QUEEN IN LANGUEDOC
17. INTRIGUE IN THE ROUSSILLON
III. THE TIME OF REPRESSION
18. SURVIVAL
19. CATHARS AND SPIRITUALS, INQUISITORS AND CONVENTUALS
20. THE TRIAL
AFTERWORD
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
