Episode 8: The hounds of God - medieval heretics and inquisitors
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
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The Inquisitor's Trials
Each heretic was publicly paraded, named and shamed before a huge crowd. The rule of law and an efficient bureaucracy succeeded where crusade and massslaughter had failed. But heresy was by no means a finished chapter. Other groups attracted the focus of the church and secular authorities. These included beguin communities of lay women who combined mysticism with chastity and an apostolic life style. And therefore, beyond clerical control. One such woman was marguerite de porett. You may remember peter adamson included her on his top three of mediaeval european freethinkers in 13 o eight,. Her book, the mirrors of simple souls, was condemned and
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