The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars

The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars
ISBN-10
1861973500
ISBN-13
9781861973504
Category
Albigenses
Pages
333
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Profile Books(GB)
Author
Stephen O'Shea

Description

Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France. Their subversive beliefs brought down on them the wrath of Popes and monarchs and provoked a brutal 'Crusade' against them. The final defeat of the Cathars was horrific with mass burnings of men, women and children in the village of Montaillou in the Pyrenees.

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