How Long to Read So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke

How Long Does it Take to Read So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke by Louisa A. Burnham

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke, Louisa A. Burnham takes us inside the world of a little-known heretical group in the south of France in the early fourteenth century. The Beguins were a small sect of priests and lay people allied to (and sharing many of the convictions of) the Spiritual Franciscans. They stressed poverty in their pursuit of a Franciscan evangelical ideal and believed themselves to be living in the Last Days. By the late thirteenth century, the leaders of the order and the popes themselves had begun to discipline the Spirituals, and by 1317 they had been deemed a heresy. The Beguins refused to accept this situation and began to evade and confront the inquisitorial machine. Burnham follows the lives of nine Beguins as they conceal themselves in cities, construct an "underground railroad," solicit clandestine donations in order to bribe inquisitors, escape from prison, and venerate the burned bones of their martyred fellows as the relics of saints. Their actions brought the Beguins the apocalypse they had long imagined, as the Church's inquisitors pursued them along with the Spirituals and began to arrest them and burn them at the stake. Reconstructing this dramatic history using inquisitorial depositions, notarial records, and the previously unknown Beguin martyrology, Burnham vividly recreates the world in which the Beguins lived and died for their beliefs.

How long is So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke?

So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke by Louisa A. Burnham is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke aloud.

What Reading Level is So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke?

So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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