Notes and Bibliography on Jacques Fournier
Jacques Fournier was a man who ascended from a humble birth (c. 1280) to
appointments as Bishop of Pamiers (1317), Bishop of Mirepoix (1326), Cardinal
(1327) and finally to election as Pope Benedict XII of Avignon (1334). He made a
name for himself by his skill as administrator and inquisitor particuarly during
the years 1318-1325 when he conducted an extensive campaign against the last
remaining Cathar (Albigensian) heretics in the tiny village of Montaillou (in
the Pyrenées, in the medieval region of the Comté de Foix, modern department of
Ariège), as well as others who had lapsed from the faith.
For general
historical background and a discussion of Occitan society at this time, see
Bray's translation of Ladurie's Montaillou .
For further information, see the following:
Fournier, Jacques, Le
Registre d'Inquisition de Jacques Fournier, evêque de Pamiers (1318-1325),
Latin manuscript no. 4030 in the Vatican Library, edited by Jean Duvernoy,
Toulouse, 1965, 3 vols. (in Latin)
Fournier, Jacques, Le Registre
d'Inquisition de Jacques Fournier (Evêque de Pamiers) 1318-1325, traduit et
annoté par Jean Duvernoy, Préface de Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Civilisations et
Sociétés 43, (Paris: Mouton, 1978) 3 vols. (in French)
Ladurie, Emmanuel
LeRoy. Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, trans. by Barbara Bray.
(New York: Vintage Books, 1979).
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy.
Montaillou, village occitan de 1294 à 1324. (Paris: Editions Gallimard,
1975).
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