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Karen Sullivan.
Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature.

Publisher: Chicago U.P., 2005.
ISBN 0226781690;
ISBN-13: 9780226781693.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 158x239x23mm.
Page count: xii,281pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is rather grubby and a bit faded, but not badly worn; boards slightly blotchy, otherwise the book itself looks in good order overall, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £15.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price $37.50]
Weight without packaging: 553g.

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Contents: Beatrice de Planissoles & the heretics of Montaillou; Secrecy of the "Manichaeans" & Cathars; Heresy, secrecy & troubadour lyric; The singularity of noble heretics; Heresy, singularity & the Romance of Tristan; Duplicity of the Waldensians; Heresy, duplicity & medieval comic tales.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 29pp
Index: yes


See also | Heresy | Literature |

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