- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: W&N; New edition edition (27 Jan 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297819127
- ISBN-13: 978-0297819127
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 4.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,128,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when the Catholic Church waged war against heretics in its own ranks
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The 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. These heretics drew their strength from the conciousness of belonging to a faith that had never seen eye to eye with Catholicism and was more ancient than 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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book is an exciting read and gives a depth and breadth of research, and erudition, that is hard to find on this subject. She follows through from the roots of the movement, its social and political context of the time, and its sister movements such as the Vaudois or Waldesians that were to be persecuted by the Catholic Church all the way through to the 16th century. But most of all, this is a history of the Catholic Church and the beginning of the Inquisition.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a well written and interesting read that combines historical facts with a fluent writing style worthy of an adventure writer. It covers the period of the inquisition against the Cathars in the Languedoc in the 12th and 13th centuries and reveals the politics behind the campaign to destroy Catharism. It is evident that the author sympathises with the Cathars whom she depicts as the heroes even though they were seen by the Church at the time as heretics who should be burned to death for their belief in an alternative doctrine.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book gives you a great overwiew of the albigensian crusades and is a great start for someone interested in this period of turmoil between the church of Rome and the Cathars. I find it to be well written and researched and giving an insight into politics and life in the midi versus the rest of France and gives you a better understanding and foundation for further reading.
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Well-Informed And Solid, but PLEASE......
There's much in Zoe Oldenbourg's book to be positive about. It is thoroughly researched and facts tumble off the pages at a pace that makes them easily digestible but nutritious. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Andrew Morton
Forty Years of Pain and Suffering in the South of France
Jonathan Sumption's book on `The Albigensian Crusade' does not list Zoe Oldenbourg's 1961 account in its bibliography, and yet her `Massacre at Montsegur' was apparently the first... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Nicholas Casley
excellent!
indeed, written with passion, (as other reviewer states) and indepth knowledge of her subject. a very good book to learn about Cathar history.
Published on 24 May 2001
Very informative and well structured
Highly recomended, well-written with real passion for the subject
Published on 13 Feb 2001
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