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Authors: Stephen O'Shea

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biographical info, xxi, 25–26, 27, 94

and Boniface, 29–34, 104, 222
n

and Castanet, 93, 101

collecting funds, brutally, 29

death of, 183

and Dominicans, 59, 96–97

and Flanders, 106–7, 108–9, 110

and Foulques de Saint-Georges, 97–98

and inquisition, 56–60, 59, 95–96, 97–98

and Languedoc, 116, 139, 145–55, 249–251
n

and Nogaret, 110

recruits for crushing heretics, 27–28

and Senlis, 92

and Templars, 23–24

Philip IV, king of France, and Bernard

audience in Senlis, 93–96, 97, 98

audience in Toulouse, 148–53, 155

Bernard's faux pas in Toulouse, 146

events at time of audience in Senlis, 32–34, 89–91

and king's visit to Clement V, 172

pardon of Bernard, 173, 193, 255
n

Philip V, king of France, 200–201

Picquigny, Jean de

and accord signed by Carcassonne and the Church, 118–19

and audience in Senlis, 90–91, 92, 94–95, 96–97, 240
n

and audience in Toulouse, 146–48

and Bernard, 88–91, 117, 191

biographical info, xix

and Carcassonne in revolt, 129–30

as
Enquêteur-–réformateur
, 87–91

excommunication of, 136, 137–38, 147, 248
n

and Flanders, 239
n

the Wall and, 130–33

Ponte St. Angelo, 11–12, 20–21, 116–17, 215
n

Pont Vieux, Carcassonne, 37

poverty

of Franciscans, 176

and Olivi's influence on Spirituals, 68

opulence of the Church vs., 16–17, 174–76, 184, 217
n
, 256
n

and welfare of individual before

God, 174

See also
laity

prisoners from Albi

Bernard as advocate for, 89

and Castanet's avaricious behavior, 75–77, 85, 238
n

Queen Joan's visit, 154

return to the Wall from the Cité, 191

royal custody in the Cité, 132–34

wives of, 77, 88, 103–4, 170

Pros, Peire, xxi, 76, 153

Purgatorio
(Dante), 33

Purgatory, threat of, 40

Rabaud, Guillaume, 124–25, 244
n

Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, 38, 226
n

regime principum, De
(Giles of Rome), 27

registers.
See
inquisition registers

“Reticence of Lady Anne, The” (Saki), 213
n

Roman Church.
See
Church, the

Rome and Jubilee (1300), 11–14, 20, 22, 33–34, 116–17, 216
n
.
See also
Church, the; papacy

Roquefort, Bernard-Raymond de, 125, 246
n

Sacconi, Raynier, 53

Saint-Jean-–Pla-de-–Corts,

Kingdom of

Majorca, 158, 159–61, 193–94, 252
n

Saint-–Thibéry, Etienne de, 55, 235
n

Saisset, Bernard, xvi, 31–32, 86–91, 94, 104

Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), 213
n

secession attempt, 156–61, 169–71, 193–94, 254
n

sedition charges against Barnard, 193–94

Senlis, 91, 92–98, 103–4

sermo generalis
of inquisitors, 48, 49, 54, 76, 233
n

sermon of 1303, 120–22, 181, 244
n

sex

Castanet's debauchery, 93

Castanet's rules on, 74–75, 237
n

Foulques as rapist, 96

Sicre, Gui, xviii, 115, 118–19

Spanish Inquisition, 205

Spiritual Franciscans

Bernard as, 5–6, 178–79, 193, 237
n
, 258
n

and divide within the Franciscans, 176–78

as heretics, 187–88, 193, 258
n

overview, 68–69

as targets of inquisition, 178–80

Ste. Cécile Cathedral, 73–74

St. Félix, Cathar conclave in, 28

St. Sernin, Toulouse, 143

Tarragona, Council of, 43, 79–80, 229
n

terminology and names, xiii–xiv

terror

burning people alive, 23, 37–38, 49–50, 55, 233
n

disinternment and burning after death, 47, 54, 79

of Purgatory and Hell, 40

torture

of Cathars before burning at the stake, 50

techniques for avoiding, 44

of Knights Templar, 23–24

overview, 4

papal approval of, 46–47, 53, 232
n

of penance after confession and sentencing, 48–49

Philip IV on Foulques' use of, 97

at prison in Albi, 74

at the Wall, 56–57, 135–36

Toulouse

Dominican university in, 38, 226–227
n

expulsion of Dominicans, 54

Musée de Augustins, 1–2

overview, 143–45, 249
n

and Pamiers, 86

Philip IV's meeting in, 146–53, 249–251
n

trade, international, 21–22, 218
n

Treaty of Anagni, 159

Treaty of Meaux-Paris (1229), 38, 226
n

trial of Bernard (1319)

arrest, 185–86

Bernard's challenge of commissioners, 189–90

Bernard's surrender, 198–99

charges and investigation, 188–89, 193–98

judges, 192

Laurens' painting of, 1–2

move to the Cité, 190–92

sentencing, 199–201

torture of Bernard, 187–88, 194

transcripts and records from, 6–7

witnesses, 192–93, 197

usage, xiii–xiv

Venetian traders, 21–22

Verdun-en-–Lauragais, 167

Vilanova, Arnaud de, xv, 3, 170, 177, 187, 194–95

Villani, Giovanni, 12, 216
n

Waldenses, 17, 42, 44–45, 116, 217
n

Wall, the

Bernard sentenced to life in, 200–201

construction and opening, 55

corruption of warden, 53

description of conditions, 56–58

freeing the prisoners, 5, 131–33

heretics sentenced to, 49

overview, 36, 85–86

Picquigny's decision about prisoners in, 130–31

See also
prisoners from Albi

Wasteland
(Eliot), 11

William of Occam, 19

woad and woad fields, 37, 106, 226
n

A N
OTE ON THE
A
UTHOR

S
TEPHEN
O'S
HEA
is a historian and the acclaimed author of
Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the
Medieval Mediterranean World
,
The Perfect Heresy: The
Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars
, and
Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks
the Trenches of World War I
. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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