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Massacre at Montsegur

A History of the Albigensian Crusade

  • Paperback
  • 448 pages
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • 13.6 x 21.5 x 3.4 cm

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In 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow-Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one of the greatest princes in Western Christendom, premier baron of all the territories in southern France where the langue d'oc was spoken. So began the Albigensian Crusade (named after the French town of Albi), which was to culminate in 1244 with the massacre of Cathars at the mountain fortress of Montsegur. This Crusade was the Catholic Church's response to the rapid growth of a rival Christian religion in the very heart of Christendom - the religion of the Cathars (or 'pure ones'). These heretics drew their strength from the consciousness of belonging to a faith that had never seen eye to eye with Catholicism and was more ancient than the Church itself. From the beginning this religious war was to show all the characteristics of a national resistance movement, so that in the end it was not just the survival of the Cathar faith that was at stake but also that of the Languedoc itself as an autonomous and independent region of France.
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Massacre At Montsegur: A History Of The Albigensian CrusadeMassacre at Montsegur

  • Title

    Massacre at Montsegur

  • Author

    Zoe Oldenbourg

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Orion Publishing Co

  • Published

    April 2006

  • Weight

    448g

  • Page Count

    448

  • Dimensions

    13.6 x 21.5 x 3.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781842124284

  • ISBN-10

    1842124285

  • Eden Code

    1201137

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