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For the French village of Montaillou in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, these were the only choices possible. The former was espoused by the Catholic Church; the latter, by a group of heretics now known as the Cathars but often referred to in their own time as �...
Not the least odd aspect of the affair is that Foucault's Pendulum is not so much a thriller as a complicated parable that contains pages and pages of erudite details about such medieval phenomena as the Knights Templar, the Cathars and the Order of Assassins. And Eco steadfastly refuses...
The plot is absurd. A parish priest says Mass, hears confessions, baptizes, performs weddings. Yet his sympathies lie with a bold underground of heretics, Cathars who see the world as the realm of Satan and the church as a device of hell. The cleric actively supports these zealots who will...
With lucidity, proportion and no cheapness, Bates tells the story of those poor medieval sects (Cathars, Lollards, Waldenses, Hussites) which embraced pacifism and communism as the teachings of Christ. He shows that religious and economic motives were inseparable in their beliefs and in those of their persecutors. Middle-class Calvinism...
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