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Book Review

Europe: Ancient and Medieval


Mark Gregory Pegg. The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245–1246. Prinecton: Princeton University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 238. $35.00.

Mark Gregory Pegg has analyzed the depositions received by the inquisitors of Toulouse in 1245–1246 from 5,471 witnesses from the Lauragais about their knowledge of and involvement with the heretical "bons hommes" and the Waldensians, recorded in MS 609 of the Bibliothèque Municipale of Toulouse, a copy of the inquisitors' registers made ca. 1260. None of those questioned was a professed "good man/woman." Some claimed to have had little involvement with the heretics, while others were what are commonly called credentes, believers, who sympathized with the heretics but had not been admitted to full membership of their sect. . . .


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