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Kill Them All - Cathars and Carnage in the Albigensian Crusade (Hardcover)
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Kill Them All - Cathars and Carnage in the Albigensian Crusade (Hardcover)
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List price R615
Loot Price R510
Discovery Miles 5 100
You Save R105 (17%)
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The bloody Albigensian Crusade launched against the Cathar heretics
of southern France in the early thirteenth century is infamous for
its brutality and savagery, even by the standards of the Middle
Ages. It was marked by massacres and acts of appalling cruelty,
deeds commonly ascribed to the role of religious fanaticism. Here,
in the first military history of the whole conflict, Sean McGlynn
tells the story of the crusade through its epic sieges of seemingly
impregnable fortresses, desperate battles and destructive
campaigns, and offers expert analysis of the warfare involved,
revealing the crusade in a different light - as a bloody
territorial conquest in which acts of terror were perpetrated to
secure military aims rather than religious ones. The dramatic
events of the crusade and its colourful leading characters - Simon
de Montfort, Louis the Lion, Innocent III, Peter of Aragon, Count
Raymond of Toulouse - are brought to life through the voices of
contemporary writers who fought and experienced it.
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