Preachers by Night

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xx, 264 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Gabriel Audisio, agrégé de l’Université (1969), doctor in History (1984), is Emeritus professor of Early Modern History at the University of Provence. Specialised in religious and cultural history, he has published in French, English, German and Italian, including The waldensian Dissent c. 1170-c. 1570 (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Readership

To specialists in early modern religious and cultural history in Europe, also to scholars tackling the origins of Protestantism, medieval religious dissents and schisms in the Roman church. It will also appeal to general readers with an interest in the religious and cultural life of medieval Europe.

List of Illustrations
Foreword

Introduction: The Way Ahead . . .

1. The Dawn of a Sect
2. The Poor of Christ
3. “Die Brüder”
4. The Time of the Barbes
5. A Company
6. The Barbes’ Way of Life
7. The Mission
8. When the Waldensians Spoke of the Barbes
9. Twilight
10. And the Barbes Were No More . . .

Conclusion: The End of the Path?

Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Places
Index of Authors Cited

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