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4.0 out of 5 stars
Readable explanation of Southern French Inquisition,
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This review is from: Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc (Paperback)
Given's book discusses the papal inquisition in southern France through the lens of the inqusitors' methods and goals, attempts by others to turn the inquisition against their foes, and resistance to it by various political and religious factions.It is a good discussion not just of the papal inquisition, but of how medieval powers battled amongst each other for money and power to carry out their competing goals. A grounding in medieval French history (or at least the Albigensian Crusade) would be helpful to the reader. This book is not a good starting point for the topic. Readers might also wish to compare it with modern research into issues of false confession such as Gudjonsson's The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions and modern police interrogation manuals such as Inbau's Criminal Interrogation and Confession. |
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Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc by James Buchanan Given (Hardcover - Sept. 1997)
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