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Love in the Western World
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Denis De Rougemont
In this classic work, often described as "The History of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Love Affair," Denis de Rougemont explores the psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to Hollywood. At the heart of his ever-relevant inquiry is the inescapable conflict in the West between marriage and passion - the first associated with ...
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Crusade Against the Grail: The Struggle Between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome
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Otto Rahn, Christopher Jones (Translator)
This is the daring book that popularized the legend of the Cathars and the Holy Grail. It presents the history of the Papal persecution of the Cathars that lies hidden in the medieval epic Parzival and in the poetry of the troubadours. Crusade Against the Grail has never appeared in English until now.
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The Treasure of Montsegur: A Novel of the Cathars
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Sophy Burnham
The year is 1209: A baby girl, dressed in a white silk dress strewn with pearls, is found in a meadow outside the smoking city of Bziers, where 20,000 people have just been massacred. Adopted by Lady Esclarmonde, the fiery Jeanne is educated in the ways of the Cathars - the "pure ones".
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Power & Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy
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Carol Lansing
Catharism was a popular medieval heresy based on the belief that the creation of humankind was a disaster in which angelic spirits were trapped in matter by the devil. Their only goal was to escape the body through purification. Cathars denied any value to material life, including the human body, baptism, and the Eucharist, even marriage and ...
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The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars
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Stephen O'Shea
O'Shea eloquently chronicles the life and death of the Cathar movement, one of Western civilization's most mind-boggling tales. The extermination of these heretical Christians around 1200 A.D. unleashed the Inquisition, a terrifying new force that would torment Europe for centuries. 15 illustrations.
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Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1294-1324
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Homer, Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
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The Albigensian Crusades
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Joseph Reese Strayer
Interprets thirteenth-century crusades in terms of the development of Europe, especially France
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The yellow cross : the story of the last Cathars, 1290-1329
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René J. A. Weis
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 ...
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Massacre at Montsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade
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Zoe Oldenbourg
In 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow-Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one of the greatest princes in Western Christendom, premier baron of all the territories in southern France where the langue d'oc was spoken. So began the Albigensian Crusade (named after the French town of Albi), ...
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Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars
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Jean Markale, Jon Graham (Translator)
Celtic and medieval scholar Jean Markale meticulously searches the obscure history of the Cathars of ancient Persia. He explores their doctrine, their secret pact with the Knights Templar, and why they earned the ruthless persecution of Church and state. Using all available documentation, Markale reveals the nature of the mysterious treasure ...
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A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
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Mark Gregory Pegg
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 ...
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Blue Flame
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K M Grant
Many years have passed since the Occitanian knights killed Richard the Lionheart in a courageous battle to keep the Blue Flame--sparked at the moment of Christ's death--from falling into the wrong hands. Now it is in danger again as enemies from the north draw near.
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The Albigensian Crusade
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Jonathan Sumption
Languedoc is among the most varied and beautiful parts of France, but eight centuries ago it was far from certain that it would become part of France at all. The rich, semi-independent principality on the Mediterranean, ruled by the house of Toulouse, seemed far apart from the world of the feudal north. It was here that a persuasive heresy of ...
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Love in the Western world
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Denis de Rougemont
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The Color of a Dog Running Away
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Richard Gwyn, Father
A love story, tale of adventure, historical thriller, and evocative tour of Barcelona, this work is a dazzling blend of the surreal and the ordinary, a novel that beguiles and disturbs in equal measure.
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The Colour of a Dog Running Away
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Richard Gwyn, Father
Musician and translator Lucas has reformed his nomadic ways to settle in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. Intrigued by some cryptic instructions on the back of an anonymous postcard, Lucas finds himself compelled into a love-affair with the sophisticated Nuria. But his attraction is obsessive and vulnerable in turns: can we trust this man's version of ...
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The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars and the Lost Teachings of Christ
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Glen Craney
In Southern France, a secret scroll holds stunning revelations about Jesus Christ. A charismatic priestess must defy Rome to preserve the truth. Christianity will enter its darkest hour and emerge forever changed. From a richly detailed backdrop of religious persecution and political rivalries springs the little-known but true story of Esclarmonde ...
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Massacre at Montségur : a history of the Albigensian crusade
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Zoé Oldenbourg
The crusade was the Catholic Church's response to the rapid growth of a rival Christian religion in the very heart of Christendom - the religion of the Cathars. These heretics drew their strength from the conciousness of belonging to a faith that had never seen eye to eye with Catholicism and was more ancient than resistance movement, so that in ...
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The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars
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Rene Weis
This exploration of the medieval community that defied the Catholic Church and the Inquisition presents the Cathars of France, who became the focus of systematic repression by the Church and were forced to wear the yellow cross, the heretic's symbol of shame. in color.
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Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village 1294-1324
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
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The great heresy
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Arthur Guirdham
A study of the history and beliefs of Catharism.
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The perfect heresy : the life and death of the Cathars
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Stephen O'Shea
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The Last Troubadour: Song of Montsegur
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Derek Armstrong
In this historical thriller set against the rich background of the 13th-century Inquisition, the last living troubadour, condemned by the church as a heretic, must rescue a holy Christian relic from a crusading king. Seamlessly weaving the history of the Cathar Crusade with the historical origins of the Tarot deck, this fascinating, genre-bending ...
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The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade
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Michael Costen
This is a compelling introduction to the war against the heretics of Languedoc launched in 1209, combined with a description of the political. economic, religious and social conditions of south-western France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Michael Costen shows why the Cathar heresy came to flourish and how the campaign against it ...
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The Cathars
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Malcolm Lambert
This is the first comprehensive account in English of the most feared and the most mysterious of medieval heretics. A crusade was launched to uproot them in the south of France, the Inquisition was developed to suppress them, and St Dominic founded his friars to preach against them. Their history and that of the medieval Church are inextricably ...
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