Heresy and Inquisition – Martha Carlin

Source: Taken verbatim on 6 April 2016 from https://web.archive.org/web/20100608123554/http://www.history.vt.edu/Burr/heresy/beguins/Heresy.html, an archived version of a website by David Burr (http://www.history.vt.edu/Burr/heresy/beguins/Heresy.html) that is no longer available:

Translated by David Burr, History Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.

The following sources do not pretend to cover all of medieval heresy, a rich and varied affair. They concentrate instead on a single variety, that of the Spiritual Franciscans and Beguins. In effect, there are several sorts of beast here: brief introductions by me designed to give some orientation; a passage from the inquisitor Bernard Gui offering his own general perspective on the heresy; verbal processes, the actual interrogation records of inquisitorial processes; selections from the Franciscan Peter Olivi, whose writings and person were revered by the Spiritual Franciscans and Beguins; and passages from Angelo Clareno, a Spiritual Franciscan leader whose chronicle gives us a remarkable overview of the movement and its fate.

In the verbal processes I have given all names in what I at least imagine to be their French form. Thus Petrus Iohannis Olivi turns into Pierre Déjean Olieu. I urge you to remember that we’re dealing with the same person here, the man whose works I’ve translated in other selections.

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