Earliest Inquisition Records from Medieval Languedoc

The earliest inquisitions took place in Languedoc in the 1230s and 1240s. Of the records they generated, nearly half of them survive only in seventeenth-century copies: these are edited, translated, and annotated here for the first time. These records are fundamental for the investigation of early inquisition. They provide us with invaluable evidence not only of inquisitors’ questions and methods, but also of the lives, conversations, and views of the women and men of Languedoc. Volumes 2 and 3 contain the fourth of the five medieval registers edited here.

Peter Biller, D.Phil. (1974), University of Oxford, is Professor emeritus at the University of York. He is the author of The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought(Oxford, 2000) and The Waldenses 1170-1530 (Ashgate, 2001), and co-editor of Inquisitors and Heretics in Thirteenth-Century Languedoc (Brill, 2011).Lucy Sackville, Ph.D. (2005), University of York, is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York. She is the author of Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century: The Textual Representations (York, 2011) and articles on inquisition and heretics, and is the co-editor of Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700 (York, 2022). Shelagh Sneddon, Ph.D. (1994), University of Cambridge, was Project Research Fellow. She was co-editor of Inquisitors and Heretics in Thirteenth-Century Languedoc (Brill, 2011) and assistant editor of The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (2007-2013).