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Bernard Gui

1261 - 1331

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Bernard Gui (French: [ɡi]), also known as Bernardo Gui or Bernardus Guidonis (c. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Gui has received more than 241,232 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Gui is the 678th most popular writer (down from 577th in 2019), the 802nd most popular biography from France (down from 691st in 2019) and the 111th most popular French Writer.

Bernard Gui was a Dominican inquisitor and historian of the 13th century. He is most famous for his manual of inquisitorial procedure, the Practica Inquisitionis Heretice Pravitatis.

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Notable Works

Manuel de l'inquisiteur
1926
A Middle French translation of Bernard Gui's shorter historical works by Jean Golein
Emperors
Makes available for the first time a good portion of the works of the famed inquisitor, translated in 1369. The annotations, which are to a large extent based on the Latin sources, serve both to indicate these sources and to clarify difficult words and passages.
1993
The Inquisitor's Guide
History
The fourteenth century would see Europe wracked by upheaval, war, rebellion, famine and plague. To many it seemed as though society itself was breaking apart, a true age of apocalypse.
2006
INQUISITOR'S GUIDE: A MEDIEVAL MANUAL ON HERETICS; TRANS. BY JANET SHIRLEY
History
The fourteenth century would see Europe wracked by upheaval, war, rebellion, famine and plague. To many it seemed as though society itself was breaking apart, a true age of apocalypse.

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bernard Gui ranks 678 out of 7,302. Before him are Douglas Adams, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lawrence Durrell, Marie de France, Maurice Blanchot, and Sei Shōnagon. After him are André Chénier, Novatian, Phillis Wheatley, Derek Walcott, Joseph of Anchieta, and Jacinto Benavente.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1261, Bernard Gui ranks 2. Before him is Denis of Portugal. After him are Daniel of Moscow, Otto III, Duke of Bavaria, Elizabeth of Sicily, Queen of Hungary, Arthur II, Duke of Brittany, Bohemond VII of Antioch, and Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway. Among people deceased in 1331, Bernard Gui ranks 2. Before him is Stefan Dečanski. After him are Abu'l-Fida, Odoric of Pordenone, and Abu Sa'id Uthman II.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard Gui ranks 802 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Henri Lefebvre (1901), Marcel Carné (1906), Vincent Cassel (1966), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), and Maurice Blanchot (1907). After him are Saint Remigius (437), Léon Bourgeois (1851), Robert Nivelle (1856), Inessa Armand (1874), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), and Victor of Aveyron (1793).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Bernard Gui ranks 111. Before him are Madame Roland (1754), Raymond Queneau (1903), Eugène Sue (1804), Frontinus (30), Marie de France (1101), and Maurice Blanchot (1907). After him are Jean Froissart (1337), Maurice Denis (1870), Max Jacob (1876), Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755), Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626), and Alain-René Lesage (1668).

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