The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor

Sean L. Field

Bog | Engelsk

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On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Greve in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite "called Porete," a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for puni…