Mark Gregory Pegg
Auteur van A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
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Mark Gregory Pegg is Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246.
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- Pegg, Mark Gregory
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- 1963-08-26
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- Australia
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- Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
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- Princeton University (MA|1993|Ph.D|1997)
University of Sydney (BA|1987) - Beroepen
- historian
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professor - Relaties
- Garb, Margaret (wife)
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- Washington University in St. Louis
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THE GREAT INQUISITION OF 1245-1246
Between May 1, 1245, and August 1,
1246, more than five thousand people
were intensively questioned in Toulouse
about the "heresy of the good men and
good women" (commonly, though
incorrectly, known as Catharism). Mark
Gregory Pegg examines the sole surviving
manuscript of this great inquisition
with unprecedented care-often in
unexpected ways-to build a richly textured
understanding of life in southern
France in the early thirteenth century
This book is a passionate evocation of
the vibrant rhythms by which thousands
of medieval men and women lived their
lives through half a century of holy war
and religious persecution.
Ajn attractive and readable book on a
sombre theme."
COLIN MORRIS
Times Literary
"Pegg's book lis] provocative, colorful,
and flowing with adrenaline! There
is much to remind one of Carlo
Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms:
the deep reading of one set of interrogations .. .
the high ambition, and
the extraordinary panache with which
the project is realized.. . . Pegg has
pulled off a tour de force. His book
is superbly written: as unputdownable
as a thriller."
"In Mark Gregory Pegg the testimonies
of the great inquisition of 1245-46
have found a historian with the erudition
and imagination to exploit their
riches. Emmanuel Le Roy Laduries
Montaillou, is also, of course, based
on a register of inquisitions in the
Languedoc, some half century later
than this one. But Pegg sets a new
standard in the theoretical sophistication
and consistency--a
grace-with which it is done. This book
is the most sensitive and searching
account of the religion of country people
in any part of Europe in the High
Middle Ages known to me."… (meer)