So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke

by Louisa A. Burnham

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801441315
• ISBN13: 9780801441318
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher