Investigation of heresy in south-west France, including a new assessment of the role of Catharism and the Albigensian Crusade.

Exposes the inner workings of inquisitions in medieval France through expert translations of primary sources.

Some of the most portentous events in medieval history—the Cathar crusade, the persecution and mass burnings of heretics, the papal inquisition—fall between

A shattering chronicle of the life and death of the Cathar movement -- one of Western civilization's great tragedies. At the beginning of the 13th century, the

Investigation of the development of the Cathar heresy in south-west France, looking at how and why its growth differed across the regions. The medieval county o