A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
Mark Gregory Pegg
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Paperback. Historian Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of a horrific crusade, drawing in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245. These accounts of ordinary men and women bring the story vividly to life. Series: Pivotal Moments in World History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 halftones, 16 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBWC; HRAM9; HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 436.
The Albigensian Crusade, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other Christians, lasted twenty bloody years--a long savage war for the soul of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of this horrific crusade. Pegg draws in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245, accounts of ordinary men and women remembering what it was like to live through such brutal times. In responding to heresy with a holy genocidal war, Innocent III fundamentally changed how Western civilization dealt with individuals accused of ... Read more
The Albigensian Crusade, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other Christians, lasted twenty bloody years--a long savage war for the soul of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of this horrific crusade. Pegg draws in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245, accounts of ordinary men and women remembering what it was like to live through such brutal times. In responding to heresy with a holy genocidal war, Innocent III fundamentally changed how Western civilization dealt with individuals accused of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Series
Pivotal Moments in World History
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195393101
SKU
V9780195393101
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About Mark Gregory Pegg
Mark Pegg is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.
Reviews for A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
Compelling account.
Christopher Hirst, the Independent
Christopher Hirst, the Independent