Table of Contents

List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 1170–1215: decisive and purposive origins; 2. The thirteenth century: the need to adapt; 3. The fourteenth century: the challenge of believing differently; 4. The fifteenth century: the risks of longevity; 5. The constraints of a life in hiding; 6. The need to organise; 7. A culture of their own: the written and the spoken word; 8. The sixteenth century: the end as a way forward?; 9. Epilogue: the Waldensian Church; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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A short 1999 history of the Waldensians, a twelfth-century heretical movement in France, and of its persistence until the sixteenth century.

Reviews

'This text should be welcomed by all those historians ... who have up to now lacked a comprehensive and worthwhile text for the study of Waldensians.' Caterina Bruschi, Boekbeoordelingen 'Audisio has written a thoroughly competent introduction to the movement.' The Heythrop Journal