Medievalists.net » Languedoc http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: the Albigensian Crusade and the Subjugation of the Languedoc http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/kingdom-power-glory-albigensian-crusade-subjugation-languedoc/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/kingdom-power-glory-albigensian-crusade-subjugation-languedoc/#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:46:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52112 In March of 1208, Pope Innocent III preached the Albigensian Crusade. The crusade, which covered an area from Agen to Avignon and the Pyrenees to Cahors, initiated a new phase in the already strained relationship between the Catholic Church and the Languedoc.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/kingdom-power-glory-albigensian-crusade-subjugation-languedoc/feed/ 0 Catharism and Heresy in Milan http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/13/catharism-heresy-milan/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/13/catharism-heresy-milan/#comments Tue, 13 May 2014 23:02:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49588 Evidence suggests that heresy in Lombardy proliferated during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a period of upheaval in the structure and form of politics and society, especially in itscapital city. From 1117 Milan operated as a commune, securing independent jurisdiction at thePeace of Constance (1183).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/13/catharism-heresy-milan/feed/ 0 Women on Trial: Piecing Together Women’s Intellectual Worlds from Courtroom Testimony http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/women-on-trial-piecing-together-womens-intellectual-worlds-from-courtroom-testimony/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/women-on-trial-piecing-together-womens-intellectual-worlds-from-courtroom-testimony/#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:48:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42785 To tease out these issues, I would like to offer an analysis of a specific set of criminal records from the city of Toulouse in the later Middle Ages. In recent years, many scholars have attempted to gain access to the lives of women in medieval Languedoc.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/women-on-trial-piecing-together-womens-intellectual-worlds-from-courtroom-testimony/feed/ 0 “Her Husband Went Overseas”: The Legal and Social Status of Abandoned Jewish Women in Medieval Provence and Languedoc http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/16/her-husband-went-overseas-the-legal-and-social-status-of-abandoned-jewish-women-in-medieval-provence-and-languedoc/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/16/her-husband-went-overseas-the-legal-and-social-status-of-abandoned-jewish-women-in-medieval-provence-and-languedoc/#comments Tue, 16 Jul 2013 18:00:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42157 This paper deals with the legal term 'medinat ha-yam' (meaning 'overseas”) in Jewish law, which, among other things, refers to a husband abandoning his wife, and to debtors who refuse to pay their debts, and commercial partners who took someone else’s property out of their homeland.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/16/her-husband-went-overseas-the-legal-and-social-status-of-abandoned-jewish-women-in-medieval-provence-and-languedoc/feed/ 0 Conflict and Coercion in Southern France http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/28/conflict-and-coercion-in-southern-france/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/28/conflict-and-coercion-in-southern-france/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:49:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40823 This paper endeavors to examine the mechanisms by which the crown of France was able to subsume the region of Languedoc in the wake of the Albigensian Crusade in the thirteenth century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/21/in-her-voice-the-destruction-of-the-cathars-in-languedoc/feed/ 0 THE WILL AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA AND LANGUEDOC, 800-1200 http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/the-will-and-society-in-medieval-catalonia-and-languedoc-800-1200/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/the-will-and-society-in-medieval-catalonia-and-languedoc-800-1200/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:03:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23579 THE WILL AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA AND LANGUEDOC, 800-1200 Taylor, Nathaniel Lane PhD Philosopy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April (1995) Abstract Some three thousand men and women of Languedoc and Catalonia (southwestern France and northeastern Spain) from before the year 1200 speak to us through their testaments. This volume of testamentary evidence is unmatched in […]

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