About this title: In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate heresy between the Garonne and Rhone rivers--a vast region now known as Languedoc--in a great crusade. This most holy war, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other Christians, lasted twenty bloody years--it was a long savage battle for the soul of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of this horrific ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780195171310ISBN:0195171314
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 284 pages. Pegg's narrative of the massacres of the crusades-a fervor of "cleansing" the world of heresy, and a fear that christendom was being eaten away by heretics is gripping. innocent iiis holy genocidal war fundamentally changed how western civilization dealt with individuals accused of corrupting society, and led to the creation of the inquisition. 20 halftones (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780195171310ISBN:0195171314
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 234x156. (284) pegg's narrative of the massacres of the crusades-a fervor of "cleansing" the world of heresy, and a fear that christendom was being eaten away by heretics is gripping. innocent iiis holy genocidal war fundamentally changed how western civilization dealt with individuals accused of corrupting society, and led to the creation of the inquisition. (Hardback) read more
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195171310ISBN:0195171314
Description: Very Good. 0195171314 Great book! Pages are clean and free of notes. Binding like new. Dust jacket shows minor wear at the edges from shelf wear and handling. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008-01-28
ISBN-13:9780195171310ISBN:0195171314
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008-01-28
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008-01-28
ISBN-13:9780195171310ISBN:0195171314
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Description: New. 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... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780195171310ISBN:0195171314
Description: New. Pegg's narrative of the massacres of the crusades-a fervor of "cleansing" the world of heresy, and a fear that Christendom was being eaten away by heretics is gripping. Innocent IIIs holy genocidal war fundamentally changed how Western civilization d... read more
"Actually I didn't finish this book ... I didn't even get halfway through it. If you're looking for extremely well-researched, detailed information, this is the book. I wanted the information, but not in such a long, drawn-out textbook style! Pretty fascinating, though, to find out that there was no official "Cathar" religion or group -- the 'heretics' the church exterminated were primarily different groups, the largest of which seems to have been the "Bon Chretians" -- commonly referred to as the Good Men, Good Women, Good Christians for their practice of living and behaving as Jesus. These religious followers were not confined to the Langue d'Oc region (Occitania) of what is now southern France; they also lived in northern Italy, Catalonia, Germany and related areas."
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