Jean Duvernoy

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Jean Duvernoy (* 1917 in Montbéliard ; † August 18, 2010 in Toulouse ) was a French lawyer and medievalist .

Life

Jean Duvernoy studied law at the University of Grenoble and then worked as a legal advisor for the state company Électricité Gaz de France . In addition to this activity, Duvernoy, as a connoisseur of the Latin language, had a keen interest in the history of the Inquisition and heresy in the Middle Ages . First he dealt with the Waldensian movement , but later dealt with the Cathars .

Because of his relationship with the Catholic Institute of Toulouse , one of five Catholic universities in France , Duvernoy received a letter of recommendation for the Vatican Library . There he came across the register of the inquisitor Jacques Fournier , who was Bishop of Pamiers in the 14th century . Duvernoy studied the manuscript of these Inquisition Protocols and in 1965 edited the Latin edition under the title Le Registre d'Inquisition de Jacques Fournier, Évêque de Pamiers (1318-1325) in three volumes. The monograph by the historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie , which he published under the title Montaillou, village occitan de 1294 à 1324 , is based on this edition . In 1978, Duvernoy also published the French translation of the Inquisition Acts in three volumes.

Jean Duvernoy is the author of several works on the Cathars and has transcribed and translated numerous texts. In 1981 he founded the Center d'études cathares with René Nelli and Michel Roquebert . Duvernoy finally died at the age of 93 and was buried on August 24, 2010 in the Protestant church of Salin in Toulouse .

Works (selection)

  • Le régime international du Danube. Impr. Plancher, Bonneville (Haute-Savoie) 1941.
  • With René Nelli , Déodat Roché and Ferdinand Niel: Les cathares. Documents et articles. Édition de Delphes, Paris 1964.
  • Le registre d'Inquisition de Jacques Fournier, évêque de Pamiers (1318-1325): manuscrit Vat. Latin n ° 4030 de la Bibliothèque Vaticane. Ed. Latin, 3 vols.Private, Toulouse 1965.
    • French translation: (Civilization et sociétés 43) La Haye, Paris 1978, ISBN 90-279-7782-8 .
  • Le catharisme. La religion des cathares. Private, Toulouse 1976.
  • Le catharisme. L'histoire des cathares. Private, Toulouse 1978.
  • With Robert Lafont , Paul Labal, Michel Roquebert and Philippe Martel: Le catharisme en Occitanie. Fayard, Paris 1982, ISBN 978-2213009124 .
  • Dissidents du pays d'Oc, Cathares, Vaudois et Béguins. Private, Toulouse 1994, ISBN 2-7089-5374-5 .
  • La religione dei Catari, Fede, Dotrine, Riti. Mediterranee, Rome 2000, ISBN 978-8827213728 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Michel Jas: Jean Duvernoy (1917–2010), l'inventeur du catharisme historique moderne . Actualités Unitariennes website . Retrieved August 17, 2019
  2. ↑ Sabrina Rezki: Les Cathares en deuil . Website of LaDepeche.fr . Retrieved August 17, 2019
  3. ↑ Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie : Montaillou - A village before the Inquisitor 1294-1324 . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1986.
personal data
SURNAME Duvernoy, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duvernoy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Montbeliard , France
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2010
Place of death Toulouse , France