About this title: In the 13th century, a group of heretics in southwest France, the Cathars, became a serious threat to the Catholic church. In several waves of repression, thousands of Cathars were killed. Yet so ardent was their faith that, early in the next century, the Cathars rose one last time. Using the breathtakingly detailed and uniquely extant documentation from this period, and drawing on his intimate knowledge of the last Cathars' tracks and hiding places, many of which survive to this day, Rene Weis tells the full story of this gripping historical episode.
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780670881628ISBN:0670881627
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Like-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine-Bright pages. 453 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. -For almost 30 years, the medieval community known as the Cathars was able to stand in opposition to both the oppression of the Catholic Church and the terrors of the Inquisition. Considered heretics, they were forced to wear the yellow cross--a symbol of shame--and many of their members were burned at the stake. RenÁ ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780670881628ISBN:0670881627
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780140276695ISBN:0140276696
Description: Very Good. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Rene Weis tells the gripping story of the last Cathars' doomed fight for survival in this major work of detection, scholarship and storytelling. Contains 32 colour photographs and 7 maps. Light general reading wear, spine creasing, text and photos bright and clear, 453 pages. Post Typically 1-2 days UK, 2-7 days Worldwide. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780670881628ISBN:0670881627
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Viking, London, 2000. 1st Edition/1st Printing. (UK Ed). Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780670881628ISBN:0670881627
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 02/08/2001
ISBN-13:9780140276695ISBN:0140276696
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 02/11/2000
ISBN-13:9780670881628ISBN:0670881627
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 02/11/2000
ISBN-13:9780670881628ISBN:0670881627
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 02/11/2000
ISBN-13:9780670881628ISBN:0670881627
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780140276695ISBN:0140276696
Description: New. In the 13th century, a group of heretics in southwest France, the Cathars, became a serious threat to the Catholic church. In several waves of repression, thousands of Cathars were killed. Yet so ardent was their faith that, early in the next century, ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, London
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780670881628ISBN:0670881627
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Octavo (6" x 9 1/2"), purple cloth w/gilt lettering on spine, 32 color photographs, seven maps, b/w illustrations, bibliography, chronology, index, lv + 453 pp. In the 13th century, a group of heretics in southwest France, the Cathars, were perceived as a serious threat to the Catholic Church. Their fervently held dualistic beliefs were anathema to the established religious order. In several waves of brutal repression, thousands of Cathars were killed, with many burnt at ... read more
Description: Good. Used book in good condition. Text and interior clean. Front end page is missing and title page missing. The soft cover has a few creases on the spine. In the early years of the 14th century the Catholic Church extinguished the heretical fire of the Cathars in south-western France. This was the last stronghold of a people forced to hide their extraordinay beliefs in the isolated villages of the Pyrenees. Arming himself with contemporary accounts and conducting his own researches in the ... read more
Description: VG paperback. no inscriptions. crisp and clean. an analysis of the late Cathar community in south-west France in the 13th century. read more
Edition: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 2001
Description: A Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket with plates, many in color, including maps. Excellent bibliography. 453 pages, indexed. Octavo. read more
"If you have any doubt that religion is the curse of mankind, read this book -- by a London University Professor of English Literature, Rene Weiss. It is probably best read after Le Roy Ladurie's 'Montallou', and Zoe Oldenburg's 'Massacre at Montsegur' for background (and though a bit academic, it does stand well on its own too). The information on which the book is based is taken from the Inquisitorial Registers and the Vatican Library. There is a cast of hundreds (with a handy guide appended to help keep track). Catharism was a medieval heresy. To quote Weiss: "Here was a dissident faith with, at its doctrinal core, gentleness and the promise of universal redemption. It was inspired by the New Testament and it was Christ and his disciples whom the spiritual leaders of the Cathar church, the so called 'Perfects', emulated. The Cathar's opposition to all forms of killing extended to human and all animal life alike, and like Christ they intended to forgive those who persecuted them. To encounter such a philosophy in the long-distant past is in itself surprising; to learn that in the thirteenth century Languedoc it inspired tens of thousands of ordinary men and women to risk their lives is astonishing". They were wiped out by the Catholic Inquisition. The main players are: 1. Jacques Fournier, fanatical believer in the law, ruthless Dominican, Grand Inquisitor of Sabartes -- who even ordered the digging up of the corpses of heretics -- later to become Pope Benedict XII. He was very fat, died of gangrene in 1342 and was buried adjacent to the Papal Palace in Avignon. During the renovations of 1765 his body was dug up and found to be wearing a ring of garnets and rubies surrounding Christ and the Virgin, and rings inscribed 'Ecce ancilla Domini' -- behold the servant of the Lord, and 'Missus est Angelus' -- the angel has been sent. They were claimed by the then archbishop for himself. 2. The powerful Clergue family of Montallou, with Pierre, its sexually rampant priest, ready to run with the fox and hunt with the hounds, be they Catholic or Cathar. 3. Pierre Maury, shepherd and Cathar guide, generous to a fault, hero of the story ( if a film were to be made he would be played by Sebastien Duperdu). Apprehended in 1323 and brought before Fournier, imprisoned in manacles for life with his brother but considered too small fry to be burned. A fascinating read for anyone interested in details of French medieval daily life, or in the Cathars per se, and in the history of Christianity."
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