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 developed into a programme of conquest by which an alliance of church and state finally destroyed the heresy and united the region with the newly expanding French kingdom.
| Author | M. D. Costen |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Release Date | 1997-11-15 |
| ISBN | 9780719043321 |
| Pages | 244 pages |
| Rating | 4/5 (28 users) |
