Sublime

if you were a woman in the Languedoc of 1200, it made more sense to be a Cathar than a Catholic.

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The Languedoc in the years immediately after the fall of Montségur was subject to inquisitorial scrutiny of proto-Stalinist proportions. Heading this clampdown on the thirteenth-century equivalent of thoughtcrime were Bernard of Caux and John of St Pierre. Over 5,000 depositions survive, but this is only a fraction of what was actually taken down a

opens with twenty preliminary notes, or annotations.

Calvert readjusted his will so that Wordsworth would get £900 on the event of his death. Calvert serves as the patron saint of a rare sort of social type: the person who can see a gift in others, push that person toward their vocation, and provide practical assistance to make it happen.

sociological articles, statistics, and time lines to using novels, poetry, and memoir.

an unsympathetic witness to the success and spread of Christianity, based on

13. Emmanuel