Albigensian Crusade

Name: Albigensian Crusade
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ISBN: 9780571200023

ISBN-10: 0571200028

ISBN-13: 9780571200023

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jonathan Sumption

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The Albigensian Crusade reconstructs a world in which every French province had its own cultural tradition, a tradition which in Languedoc created the troubadour, the basilica of St. Sernin, and the castles of Cabaret and Carcassonne.

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.32" wide x 8.54" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.638

Jonathan Sumption is a former History Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a practising QC. He is the author of Pilgrimage and The Albigensian Crusade, as well as the first three volumes in his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War - Trial by Battle, Trial by Fire and Divided Houses. He was awarded the 2009 Wolfson History Prize for Divided Houses.




Languedoc



The dualist tradition



The Cathar church



1194-1208: Raymond VI



1208-1209: The launching of the crusade



1209: Beziers and Carcassonne



1209-1211: The breach with Raymond VI



1211: Triumph and disaster



1211-1212: The conquest of the south



1212-1213: Muret



1213-1216: Judgement in Rome



1216-1218: The turning of the tide



1218-1224: The liberation



1224-1229: The crusade of Louis VIII



The Inquisition



Epilogue: France and Languedoc


Notes


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Index