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History of the Cathars: A Pocket Essential History Of The Cathars - Softcover

Martin, Sean

 
9780857303097: History of the Cathars: A Pocket Essential History Of The Cathars
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0857303090 ISBN 13: 9780857303097
Verlag: Oldcastle Books Ltd, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Catharism was the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. The Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting, and non-violence. They completely rejected the Catholic Church and all its trappings; Cathar services and ceremonies, by contrast, were held in fields, barns, and in people's homes. Finding support from the nobility in the fractious political situation in southern France, the Cathars also found widespread popularity among peasants and artisans. And again unlike the Church, the Cathars respected women, and women played a major role in the movement. Alarmed at the success of Catharism, the Church founded the Inquisition and launched the Albigensian Crusade to exterminate the heresy. While previous Crusades had been directed against Muslims in the Middle East, the Albigensian Crusade was the first Crusade to be directed against fellow Christians, and was also the first European genocide. With the fall of the Cathar fortress of Montsegur in 1244, Catharism was largely obliterated, although the faith survived into the early 14th century. Today, the mystique surrounding the Cathars is as strong as ever, and Sean Martin recounts their story and the myths associated with them in this lively and gripping book.

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Sean Martinis the author of The Knights Templar, The Gnostics, and Black Death.

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Verlag
Oldcastle Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0857303090
ISBN 13 
9780857303097
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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