Description
| Product ID: | 9781861973504 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Perfect Heresy |
| Subtitle: | The Life and Death of the Cathars |
| Authors: | Author: Stephen O'Shea |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, History, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Christianity, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Christianity, Europe, c 1000 CE to c 1500 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-05-21 |