A compelling introduction to the war against the heretics of Languedoc launched in 1209, combined with a description of the political, economic, religious and social conditions of south-western France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Michael Costen shows why the Cathar heresy came to flourish and how the campaign against it developed into a programme of conquest by which an alliance of church and state finally destroyed the heresy and united the region with the newly expanding French kingdom.
The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade (Manchester Medieval Studies)
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Author(s)Michael Costen
PublisherManchester University Press
ISBN / ASIN0719043328
ISBN-139780719043321
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