Kill them all : Cathars and carnage in the Albigensian Crusade
McGlynn, Sean2018
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The bloody Albigensian Crusade launched against the Cathar heretics of southern France in the early thirteenth century is infamous for its brutality and savagery, even by the standards of the Middle Ages. It was marked by massacres and acts of appalling cruelty, deeds commonly ascribed to the role of religious fanaticism. Here, in a military history of the whole conflict, Sean McGlynn tells the story of the crusade through its epic sieges of seemingly impregnable fortresses, desperate battles and destructive campaigns, and offers expert analysis of the warfare involved, revealing the crusade in a different light - as a bloody territorial conquest in which acts of terror were perpetrated to secure military aims rather than religious ones.
Main title:
Kill them all : Cathars and carnage in the Albigensian Crusade / Sean McGlynn.
Author:
McGlynn, Sean, author
Edition:
Extended edition.
Imprint:
Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2018.
Collation:
350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780750984317 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1163511
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