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to a

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family, he began to study the

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and later Catharism. He edited and translated a great number of sources, including

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extracted ''Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error''.

Works

* ''Le Registre d'inquisition de Jacques Fournier, évêque de Pamiers, 1318-1325 : manuscrit Vat. latin n°4030 de la Bibliothèque vaticane, publié avec introduction et notes par Jean Duvernoy'' (3 volumes, 1965). Réédition : Tchou, Paris, 2004. * ''Inquisition à Pamiers, interrogatoires de Jacques Fournier : 1318-1325'', chosen, translated from Latin and présented by Jean Duvernoy, 1966 * ''Chronique, 203-1275', by Guillaume de Puylaurens, text edited, translated and annotated by Jean Duvernoy, 1976 * ''La religion des cathares'', 1976 * ''L'histoire des cathares'', 1979 * ''Inquisition à Pamiers : cathares, juifs, lépreux, devant leurs juges'', 1986 * ''Spirituels et béguins du Midi'', by Raoul Manselli, translation Jean Duvernoy, 1989 * ''Cathares, vaudois et béguins : dissidents du pays d'Oc'', 1994 * ''Chronique, 1229-1244'' par Guillaume Pelhisson, text edited, translated and annotated by Jean Duvernoy, 1994 * ''Le Dossier de Montségur, interrogatoires d'inquisition, 1242-1247'' translated, annotated and presentated by Jean Duvernoy, 1998 * ''Les cathares'', Jean Duvernoy, 1998 * ''Le procès de Bernard Délicieux, 1319'', translated, annotated and presentated by Jean Duvernoy, 2001 * ''L'Inquisition en Quercy : le registre des pénitences de Pierre Cellan, 1241-1242'', prefaced, translated from Latin and annotated by Jean Duvernoy, 2001 Writers from Montbéliard category:Historians of Catharism 1917 births 2010 deaths 20th-century French writers French medievalists Latin–French translators 20th-century French translators 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers {{France-translator-stub