title: The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor: The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart
author:  Sean L. Field 
description: This clearly written account of the trials of Marguerite Porete and her less-known supporter Guiard of Cressonessart both corrects misconceptions in the scholarly literature and offers a thick description of the intellectual, cultural, and political context in which these religious dissidents and the inquisitor William of Paris operated. <i>Choice</i><br /><br />With <i>The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor</i> Sean Field has confirmed his place as one of the best scholars now working on French history in the High Middle Ages. His skill as a reader and translator of unpublished texts, the precision and good sense of his arguments, and the meticulous care with which he integrates the scattered insights gleaned from his predecessors' work, while also ferreting out and correcting their errors where necessary, make this one of the most important recent books in medieval studies. Field also has a gift for storytellingand in Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart he has two figures whose stories are worth telling. Even the most admired experts in the fields of medieval canon law, theology, gender, and heretical movements will find this book a sparkling revelation. (William Chester Jordan, Princeton University)
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  # The Imaginary Invalid
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Moliere (Poquelin)
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  ACT I.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.—ARGAN (sitting at a table, adding up his
  
  
  apothecary's bill with counters).
  
  
    
  SCENE II.—ARGAN, TOINETTE.
  
  
    
  SCENE III.—ARGAN, ANGELIQUE, TOINETTE.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.—ANGELIQUE, TOINETTE.
  
  
    
  SCENE V.—ARGAN, ANGELIQUE, TOINETTE.
  
  
    
  SCENE VI.—BELINE, ARGAN.
  
  
    
  SCENE VII.—ARGAN, BELINE, TOINETTE.
  
  
    
  SCENE VIII.—ARGAN, BELINE.
  
  
    
  SCENE IX.—MR. DE BONNEFOI, BELINE, ARGAN.
  
  
    
  SCENE X.—ANGELIQUE, TOINETTE.
  
  
  ACT II.
  
  
    
  SCENE I.—CLEANTE, TOINETTE.
  
  
    
  SCENE II.—ARGAN, TOINETTE.
  
  
    
  SCENE III:—ARGAN, CLEANTE, TOINETTE.
  
  
    
  SCENE IV.—ARGAN, ANGELIQUE, CLEANTE.
  
  
    
  SCENE V.—ARGAN, ANGELIQUE, CLEANTE, TOINETTE.
  
  
    
  SCENE VI.—MR. DIAFOIRUS, THOMAS DIAFOIRUS, ARGAN,
  
  
  ANGELIQUE, CLEANTE, TOINETTE, SERVANTS.
  
  
    
  SCENE VII.—BELINE, ARGAN, ANGELIQUE MR. DIAFOIRUS,
  
  
  T. DIAFOIRUS, T