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This book provides an edition and translation of depositions of heresy suspects interrogated in Toulouse in the 1270s. These depositions plug a large hole in the history of heresy and inquisition, and they are reminiscent of Montaillou in their sheer colour and liveliness
About the author
Peter Biller. D.Phil. (1974), University of Oxford, is Professor of Medieval History at the University of York. He has published extensively on medieval thought and heresy, including
The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought (Oxford, 2000), and
The Waldenses 1170-1530 (Ashgate, 2001).
Caterina Bruschi, PhD (1996, Universita` degli Studi di Bologna), is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. She has published a critical edition (Salvus Burcius,
Liber Suprastella, Rome, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2002), and on medieval heresy, the inquisition, and medieval religious orders, including
The Wandering Heretics of Languedoc (Cambridge, 2009).
Shelagh Sneddon, PhD (1994), University of Cambridge, is an Assistant Editor of the
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, University of Oxford. She has also worked on
The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England for the University of St Andrews, and
Medieval Petitions: A Catalogue of the Ancient Petitions in the Public Record Office for the University of York.
Inquisitors and Heretics is her first major publication.
