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The Yellow Cross - The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329

Author
Weis, Rene
Price
NZ$17.00
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Creased and faded spine, foxing to page edges and endpapers.

This work aims to reconstruct one of the most vividly documented fragments of medieval life concerning the late Cathar community in south-west France. Following the inquisition of the 1240s in which 10,000 Cathars were burned at the stake, it seemed this early heretical movement had been fully quashed. Fifty years later however, a revival was started, centred around the small town of Montaillou and led by the charismatic Authies brothers. It would be another 30 years before Rome finally stamped out the movement....

Format
Second hand Paperback
ISBN
9780140276695
Catalog
SKU
17277

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