So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke (English, Louisa A. Burnham)

About the Book

In So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke , Louisa A. Burnham takes us inside the world of a little-known heretical group in the south of France in the early fourteenth century. The Beguins were a small sect of priests and lay people allied to (and sharing many of the convictions of) the Spiritual Franciscans. They stressed poverty in their pursuit of a Franciscan evangelical ideal and believed themselves to be living in the Last Days. By the late th…

ISBN: 9780801441318