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A Most Holy War

The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

  • Paperback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14.5 x 22.4 x 2.8 cm

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For history enthusiasts interested in medieval conflicts

Reveals the dark side of the Albigensian Crusade

You will gain insights into faith and violence in history

A Most Holy War explores the brutal history of the Albigensian Crusade.

The Albigensian Crusade, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other Christians, lasted twenty bloody years--a long savage war for the soul of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of this horrific crusade. Pegg draws in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245, accounts of ordinary men and women remembering what it was like to live through such brutal times. In responding to heresy with a holy genocidal war, Innocent III fundamentally changed how Western civilization dealt with individuals accused of corrupting society. This change, Pegg argues, led directly to the creation of the inquisition, the rise of an anti-Semitism, and even the holy violence of the Reconquista in Spain. "A bold, erudite, engaging, and superbly written study of what has long been one of the most central topics in medieval and Mediterranean history." --Teofilo F. Ruiz, Professor of History, UCLA
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  • Title

    A Most Holy War

  • Author

    Mark Gregory Pegg

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    November 2009

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    14.5 x 22.4 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195393101

  • ISBN-10

    0195393104

  • Eden Code

    2390714

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