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Exploring The Figure Of The Heretic In Catholic Writings Of The Twelfth And Thirteenth Centuries As Well As The Heretic's Characterological Counterpart In Troubadour Lyrics, Arthurian Romance, And Comic Tales, Truth And The Heretic Seeks To Understand Why French And Occitan Literature Of The Period Celebrated The Very Characters Who Were So Persecuted In Society At Large. Karen Sullivan Proposes That Such Literature Allowed Medieval Culture A Means By Which To Express Truths About Heretics And The Epistemological Anxieties They Aroused. The First Book-length Study Of The Figure Of The Heretic In Medieval French And Occitan Literature, Truth And The Heretic Will Fascinate Historians Of Ideas And Literature As Well As Scholars Of Religion, Critical Theory, And Philosophy.--jacket. The Half-opened Door, The Lowered Hood, The Smile: Béatris De Planissoles And The Heretics Of Montaillou -- A Garden Of Holy Companionship: The Secrecy Of The Manichaeans And Cathars -- A Garden, Locked And Fortified: Heresy, Secrecy, And Troubadour Lyric -- The Stoning Of Lady Guirauda: The Singularity Of Noble Heretics -- The Ropes Cutting Into Iseut's Wrists: Heresy, Singularity, And The Romance Of Trist

Author

Sullivan, Karen, 1964-

Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226781693

Subjects

Romance, Christian, Literary Fiction