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 | #440726 in Books |  imusti |  2001-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.80 x.87 x5.08l,.64 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| a bit light, but it is a solid introduction to the Cathars|By Robert J. Crawford|After having truly loved the author's Sea of Faith, I was a bit disappointed with this book: it lacked a certain density, offered little on the Medieval context, and concentrated on stories at the expense of a deeper analysis. It did not, as is the author's stated intention, make me hungry for mo|.com |Jongleurs performing troubadour poetry in fields and groves frequently dominate our images of Medieval Southern France. While the 12th century reveled in songs of deferred pleasure and adulterous fulfillment, the 13th, as Stephen O'Shea makes clear, took

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.

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars   |  Stephen O'Shea. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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