Most Holy War The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

Name: Most Holy War The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
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ISBN: 9780195393101

ISBN-10: 0195393104

ISBN-13: 9780195393101

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mark Gregory Pegg

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The Albigensian Crusade, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other Christians, lasted twenty bloody years--a long savage war for the soul of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of this horrific crusade. Pegg draws in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245, accounts of ordinary men and women remembering what it was like to live throughsuch brutal times. In responding to heresy with a holy genocidal war, Innocent III fundamentally changed how Western civilization dealt with individuals accused of corrupting society. This change, Pegg argues, led directly…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.70" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Mark Gregory Pegg is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.



List of Maps


Preface


Acknowledgments


Dramatis Personae


Genealogical Charts


A Most Holy War


Glossary


Abbreviations Used in Notes


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