Perfect Heresy

O'Shea, Stephen

£9.99

The Cathars were heretics living in Languedoc in the south of France. Their subversive ideas attracted the attention of the Catholic Church leading to their extermination. Stephen O’Shea recreates their demise in this well-researched account.

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Publish Date: 21/05/2001

Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 255 g
Dimensions 200 × 130 × 20 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

333

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

273.6 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K