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A fable for our time.(Cathars)(Review)
The Cathars are fashionable these days. This movement of allegedly heretical Christian peasants and minor nobility drew the attention of suspicious religious authorities from the mid-twelfth to the mid-fourteenth centuries in the eastern Mediterranean lands of Languedoc, Catalonia, and Lombardy. They and the successful inquisitorial campaign against them have generated three new books in English and the expanded reissue of a classic volume on the Gnostic and dualistic doctrines ascribed to them.
The more that is published about the Albigensians--as the Cathars are also known--however, the less seems to be reliably known of them, and that is a problem for serious ...
- Mark Gregory Pegg, A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for...
- Magazine article from: Medium Aevum King, Andy March 22, 2009 700+ words
...of Manichean dualism, the Albigensian heresy was essentially a...any direct knowledge of the Albigensian heresy itself. These are...transform our ideas of the Albigensian crusade; unfortunately...base their portrayal of the Albigensians entirely on the writings...
- A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
- Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History Hevelone, Suzanne September 1, 2009 700+ words
A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom...to the drama and intrigue of the Albigensian crusade. In January of 1208, in...presented in A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom...
- Carcassonne falls in the Albigensian crusade: Aug 15 1209.(MONTHS PAST)
- Magazine article from: History Today Cavendish, Richard August 1, 2009 700+ words
...Cathars of southern France, known as Albigensians after the city of Albi, a stronghold...now proclaimed a crusade against the Albigensians and called on the warriors of France...finally captured and destroyed and the Albigensian heresy of southern France was at last...
- The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade.(Review) (book reviews) (book reviews)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State Hamilton, J.S. June 22, 1999 700+ words
The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade. By Michael Costen. Manchester...controversial than the so-called Albigensian Crusade that he sanctioned in order...omission of Joseph Strayer's The Albigensian Crusades (1971). In any case...
- The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens: the Albigensian Crusade and its...
- Magazine article from: Medium Aevum September 22, 2004 700+ words
...Chronicle of William of Puylaurens: The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath, trans...Vaux-de-Cernay's History of the Albigensian Crusade by the same authors (Woodbridge...of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade (Aldershot, 1996) it completes...
- Elaine Graham-Leigh, The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian...
- Magazine article from: Medium Aevum Paterson, Linda M. March 22, 2007 700+ words
...The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press...complete destruction as a result of the Albigensian Crusade, without protest or positive...Anonymous Continuation of the Song of the Albigensian Crusade, July 1218 to June 1219 (p...
- The Occitan War; a military and political history of the Albigensian Crusade,...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2008 700+ words
...Occitan War; a military and political history of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218. Marvin, Laurence W. Cambridge U. Press 2008 328 pages $110.00 Hardcover DC83 The Albigensian Crusade of the early thirteenth century was the first...
- The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Abels, Richard January 1, 2000 700+ words
The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade. By Michael Costen. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp. 229. $19.95.) This is...
Source: HighBeam Research, A fable for our time.(Cathars)(Review)