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Heresy, crusade and inquisition in medieval Quercy

Reviewers of the monograph agree with its premise that regional studies will prove central to resolving the current debate about the nature of the ‘Cathar’ heresy. Such research is time consuming, however, and research for this book spanned five years, despite a one-year study leave. Dr Taylor worked for considerable time in the bibliothèques municipales, archives municipales and archives départementales at Toulouse, Montauban, Cahors and Gourdon. She also visited the Bibliothèque National de France and the Archives Nationales in Paris several times, where she read several thousand folios of material relating to inquisitorial processes in Languedoc.