The Hammer of the Inquisitors
Subtitle: Brother Bernard Delicieux and the Struggle Against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France (Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions Medieval and Early Modern Peoples)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9789004115194
Subjects: Christian communities & monasticism; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Religious conflict; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Franciscans; Medieval Church (476-1517); Medieval; History; Biography / Autobiography; Inquisition; History: World; Europe; General; Interior Design - General; Languedoc; ca. 1260-ca. 1320; Bernard,; Biography; Delicieux, frere,; Dâelicieux, fráere,; France
Description: "This work recounts the life and turbulent career of the fourteenth-century Occitan Franciscan, Fr. Bernard Delicieux. He was, in turn, a supporter of and then a traitor to the king of France, a last great leader of the Spiritual Franciscan movement, and above all an open opponent of the Inquisition."--BOOK JACKET.

"The book examines, through this biography, the crisis of dissent and heresy in southern France and the rise of a unique popular movement to suppress the regime of the ecclesiastical Inquisition. It concludes with the destruction of the Spiritual Franciscans and the death of its subject at the Inquisitors' hands."--BOOK JACKET. "This book will interest those concerned with political or religious history."--BOOK JACKET.