Review

"Caterina Bruschi undertakes the seemingly quixotic task of attempting to recover the voices of Cathar heretics from amidst the historical and literary constructions of inquisitorial registers...ultimately, this portrayal of Catharism as a living, mobile, and nonconformist church rings true in the echoes of the individual voices that Bruschi has heard in her texts." -Phillip Haberkern, H-German

Book Description

By analysing medieval records of the trial of Cathar and Waldensian heretics in the South of France, Caterina Bruschi sheds light on itinerancy within heretical movements, challenges old methodologies in the study of dissent and examines the different fears felt by deponents and how those fears affected their actions.