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The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218

By Laurence W. Marvin
Hardcover
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By Laurence W. Marvin
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In 1209 Simon of Montfort led a war against the Cathars of Languedoc after Pope Innocent III preached a crusade condemning them as heretics. The suppression of heresy became a pretext for a vicious war that remains largely unstudied as a military conflict. Laurence Marvin here examines the Albigensian Crusade as military and political history rather than religious history and traces these dimensions of the conflict through to Montfort's death in 1218. He shows how Montfort experienced milit...

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