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.
| ISBN: | 9781861973504 |
| Publication date: | 21st May 2001 |
| Author: | Stephen OShea |
| Publisher: | Profile Books an imprint of Profile |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 333 pages |
| Genres: |
Blasphemy, heresy, apostasy Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict European history: medieval period, middle ages Christianity History |