Roquebert, Santo Domingo.
La leyenda negra. (Biblioteca Dominicana, 56).
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His name was Domingo de Guzmán y Aza. He was born around 1170 in a remote village in Old Castile. Twelve years after his death, which occurred in 1221 in Bologna, Italy, he was canonised, and from then on he became one of the most important figures in the history of the Catholic Church. It was the chance of an embassy to Denmark that led Dominic, in 1203, to cross the Languedoc, which was then in the midst of a religious and political crisis: the Cathar heresy had made such progress there that the threat of a crusade brandished by the legates of Pope Innocent III had had no effect. Only Dominic understood that the only way to fight the Cathars effectively was to wrest from them the monopoly of the evangelical life, in other words to fight them with their own weapons: humility, poverty, charity and the word. Setting an example, he went on the roads, barefoot, without money, begging and preaching. In 1215, he created in Toulouse the first community of preachers that was to become the Order of Friars Preachers and soon left the Languedoc of the Cathars and the crusaders of Simon de Montfort without returning. It was in the whole of Europe that he had to establish "Dominican" convents. Unfortunately, thirteen years after his death, the crusade having had no effect on the Cathar heresy, the Holy See created the Inquisition and entrusted it to the Friars Preachers. The legend soon arose that Dominic had founded this formidable police and judicial institution, and that he had even been the first Inquisitor. Since then, the truth has fortunately been re-established. Refusing to follow the paved paths of traditional hagiographic clichés, Michel Roquebert has not written the one thousand and first edifying and sublime life of a saint to whom so much devotional literature has already been devoted. As a "non-committal" historian, but passionate about his subject, he simply followed, through a rigorous fidelity to historical sources, the destiny of a man with a dazzling intelligence and prodigious will, grappling with the most serious spiritual crisis that the Church has known before the Reformation.
| Condition | Used - Very Good |
|---|---|
| Language | Spain |
| Illustrated | No |
| Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 2008 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Roquebert Michel |
| Editor | Editorial San Esteban |
| First edition | No |
| Signed edition | No |
| Signed binding | No |
| Armorial binding | No |
| Binding / Format | Softcover |
| Size | 23 x 15 cm |
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