This is the first comprehensive account in English of the most
feared and the most mysterious of medieval heretics. A crusade was
launched to uproot them in the south of France, the Inquisition was
developed to suppress them, and St Dominic founded his friars to
preach against them. Their history and that of the medieval Church
are inextricably mingled.
This book puts the Cathars back into the context where they
belong - that of medieval Catholicism. It studies the rise and fall
of the heresy from the twelfth-century Rhineland to
fifteenth-century Bosnia and the Church's counteraction, peaceful
and violent. Within the exposition, Italian Cathars are given their
rightful place, a chapter is devoted to the puzzle of the Bosnian
Church, and perspective is given to Le Roy Ladurie's brilliant but
wayward "Montaillou," A final survey assesses the legacy of a
heresy which still exerts its strange fascination.
This book combines scholarly investigation with lucid narrative.
It is, in short, historical writing at its best and likely to
become the definitive account of a subject of enduring interest and
importance.
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