'Kill them all' : Cathars and carnage in the Albigensian crusade
McGlynn, Sean2015
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The Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) by the Catholic Church against the Cathar heretics of southern France is infamous for its brutality. Marked by massacres and acts of appalling cruelty, these deeds are commonly ascribed to the role of religious fanaticism. This book offers a military history of the whole Crusade; in so doing it refutes this old view. By telling the story of the Crusade through its dramatic sieges, battles, and campaigns, and offering expert analysis of the warfare involved, the author reveals the Crusade in a new light - as a bloody territorial conquest in which acts of terror were perpetrated to secure military aims rather than religious ones.
Main title:
'Kill them all' : Cathars and carnage in the Albigensian crusade / Sean McGlynn.
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Imprint:
Stroud : Spellmount, 2015.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780752486321 (hbk)
Dewey class:
944.021944.021944.021 MACG
Local class:
944.021
Language:
English
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BRN:
1092516
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