`Volo vincere cum meis vel occumbere cum eisdem': Studien zu Simon von Montfort und seinen nordfranzosischen Gefolgsleuten wahrend des Albigenser-Kreuzzugs (1209 bis 1218).(Book Review)

by Christine Woehl (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001; pp. 332. 33 [pounds sterling]).

This University of Frankfurt doctoral thesis examines the history of the Albigensian Crusade and the Cathar movement, the reactions of Philip Augustus and Innocent III, the major narrative sources, using especially the work of Kay Wagner, before turning to the core of the work, Simon de Montfort and his North French following, their origins, family histories and landholdings in North and South, interspersed with vivid glimpses of their part in crusade fighting and politics, together with an excursus on the South French nobility. The author comes to a firm conclusion--that the …