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Pegg, Mark Gregory. A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom.(Brief article)(Book review)
Pegg, Mark Gregory. A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom. Oxford Univ. Feb. 2008. c.256p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-19-517131-0. $25. REL
Pegg (history, Washington Univ., Saint Louis; The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246) draws on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors between 1235 and 1245 in this account of the 13th-century Albigensian Crusade, commonly confused, he notes, with the crusade against the mythical Cathars. Although Pegg follows the canons of critical research, history is more of an art than a science for him here: instead of giving a doctrinal definition of Albigensian heresy, he …
