The Poor of Lyons, whom their detractors called "Waldensians"--after the name of their founder Waldo (or Vaudes)--first emerged around 1170 and formed a sect that embraced evangelism, prophesy and poverty. Challenging prohibition by following the Scripture to the last letter, they were condemned as heretics. The Waldensians constituted the only medieval heresy to have survived to the dawn of the so-called "modern" period. Their tale of simple devotion mixed with a fierce tenacity serves to illuminate aspects of religious belief that have persisted to the present day.

Previously only available as edited excerpts or as largely unedited transcriptions, Katherine Mansfield's diaries and notebooks have been re-transcribed and minutely edited for the first time, and are presented in this volume with precise historical, cultural and biographical contextual information. The entries show Mansfield's evolution as a writer as well as the impact of her era on early drafts of her mature writings. This volume also contains fascinating new material never previously published - poem-cycles, letters, Mansfield's own illustrations, and the last materials she was working on...