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René Weis was born in 1953. He is Professor of English Literature at UCL and the author of Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson, first published in 1988 to critical acclaim.

• The people of Montaillou; the steward, the chatelaine and the demon priest - 1291-1301; exodus to Lombardy - 1296; the last perfect's return - 1299-1300; betrayal and consolidation - 1300; Pierre Maury and the Cathars of Arques; Montaillou 1300-1305; the Cathars and Guillemette Maury - 1305-7; wedding-bells in Montaillou - 1307-8; the consolidation of Guillaume Guilabert -May 1308; the martyrs of Junac - 1308-10; the day the soldiers came - 8 September 1308; endgame, and a new beginning - 1309-16; Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers - 1317; from the Fenouilledes into Catalonia - 1307-14; Sant Mateu, Morella, Beceite and Montaillou again - 1315-18; the traitor, the perfect, a wedding and a divorce - 1318-20; the sting; Pamiers 1321-2; the last trials of Montaillou; inside Allemans prison in 1321; epilogue -Benoit XII and the "citoyens".

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