Medievalists.net » Toulouse 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 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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