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What should historians do with the words of the dead? Inquisition and Power reformulates the historiography of heresy and the inquisition by focusing on depositions taken from the Cathars, a religious sect that opposed the Catholic church and took root in southern France during the twelfth century. Despite the fact that these depositions were spoken in the vernacular, but recorded in Latin in the third person and rewritten in the past tense, historians have often taken these accounts as verbatim transcriptions of personal testimony. This belief has prompted some historians, including E. Le Roy Ladurie, to go so far as to retranslate the testimonies into the first-person. These testimonies have been a long source of controversy for historians and scholars of the Middle Ages.

Arnold enters current theoretical debates about subjectivity and the nature of power to develop reading strategies that will permit a more nuanced reinterpretation of these documents of interrogation. Rather than seeking to recover the true voice of the Cathars from behind the inquisitor's framework, this book shows how the historian is better served by analyzing texts as sites of competing discourses that construct and position a variety of subjectivities. In this critically informed history, Arnold suggests that what we do with the voices of history in fact has as much to do with ourselves as with those we seek to 'rescue' from the silences of past.

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Title: Inquisition and Power: Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc.(Book Review)
Author: Sara T. Nalle
Publication:Church History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: American Society of Church History
Volume: 72 Issue: 1 Page: 191(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on May 12, 1997. The length of the article is 2416 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: En busca de los cátaros. (el catarismo, una misteriosa secta medieval, atrae interés)(TT: Searching for the Cathars) (TA: Catharism, a mysterious medieval sect, attracts interest)
Author: Angel Vivas
Publication:Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 12, 1997
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Issue: n637 Page: p64(5)

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