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Nous devenons nous en dehors, pour mieux combattre au-dedans.

The Languedoc in the years immediately after the fall of Montségur was subject to inquisitorial scrutiny of proto-Stalinist proportions. Heading this clampdown on the thirteenth-century equivalent of thoughtcrime were Bernard of Caux and John of St Pierre. Over 5,000 depositions survive, but this is only a fraction of what was actually taken down a

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Peter Clergue, the randy rector of Montaillou, died before he could be sentenced. On 16 January 1329, he was pronounced a heretic, and his remains were dug up and burnt.

the remarkable diary of an intrepid Gallic pilgrim called Egeria, who toured the Holy Land at the end of the fourth century,

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Marcelin Albert