- Publisher: History Press
- Year: 2018
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 234x156mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 5.8kg
- ISBN: 9780750984317
- Product code: 542569
Kill Them All
Cathars and Carnage in the Albigensian Crusade
Sean McGlynn New Paperback Illustrated
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The brutal Albigensian Crusade of 1209–29 was waged by the Catholic Church against a Christian enemy, the Cathar heretics of southern France. For this reason religious fanaticism has often been considered the motivation behind the crusade, but in his military analysis of the whole war McGlynn argues that its sieges, battles and massacres were carried out in pursuit of political and military aims and territorial conquest. Extended second edition.
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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 the first 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. The dramatic events of the crusade and its colourful leading characters - Simon de Montfort, Louis the Lion, Innocent III, Peter of Aragon, Count Raymond of Toulouse - are brought to life through the voices of contemporary writers who fought and experienced it.
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