Washington author Sophy Burnham’s novel is set in France during the Catholic Inquisition of the 1200s, a time of terror and genocide in which neighbors and friends ...
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Cathars. Albigensians. Heresy. The Inquisition. These words tap into some murky collective memory of a forgotten time of great violence. Until a few years ago, the story of the Cathars had been all ...
He wrote two Cathar novels, The Blood Of Toulouse and The Treasure Of The Albigensians. In the first he recast the fabulations of Peyrat and caricatured the enemies of the Cathars: the wife of the ...
Ruined citadels of heretics with a touch of The Da Vinci Code - what more could France's Aude offer the traveller with a soupcon of the zealot, Joy Dodds asks. Few travel destinations are described as ...
The Albigensian Crusade, the first of its kind against Europeans and Christians, was formally launched by Pope Innocent III in 1209, ushering in an era of abattoir Christianity in the Languedoc that ...
Reporting from Montpellier, FranceReporting from Montpellier, France — They lived simple lives of austerity and abstinence and suffered horrifying deaths, cut down by marauding armies and burned at ...
When my wife suggested we drive to Southern France to see the World Heritage site of Carcassonne, my response was blunt: 'But we have two on our doorstep,' I said. 'Yes, but not like this one,' was ...
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