The Occitan War

Author : Laurence W. Marvin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139470140
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Occitan War written by Laurence W. Marvin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1209 Simon of Montfort led a war against the Cathars of Languedoc after Pope Innocent III preached a crusade condemning them as heretics. The suppression of heresy became a pretext for a vicious war that remains largely unstudied as a military conflict. Laurence Marvin here examines the Albigensian Crusade as military and political history rather than religious history and traces these dimensions of the conflict through to Montfort's death in 1218. He shows how Montfort experienced military success in spite of a hostile populace, impossible military targets, armies that dissolved every forty days, and a pope who often failed to support the crusade morally or financially. He also discusses the supposed brutality of the war, why the inhabitants were for so long unsuccessful at defending themselves against it, and its impact on Occitania. This original account will appeal to scholars of medieval France, the Crusades and medieval military history.

Author : Laurence W. Marvin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521872409
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Occitan War written by Laurence W. Marvin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1209 Simon of Montfort led a war against the Cathars of Languedoc after Pope Innocent III preached a crusade condemning them as heretics. The suppression of heresy became a pretext for a vicious war that remains largely unstudied as a military conflict. Laurence Marvin here examines the Albigensian Crusade as military and political history rather than religious history and traces these dimensions of the conflict through to Montfort's death in 1218. He shows how Montfort experienced military success in spite of a hostile populace, impossible military targets, armies that dissolved every forty days, and a pope who often failed to support the crusade morally or financially. He also discusses the supposed brutality of the war, why the inhabitants were for so long unsuccessful at defending themselves against it, and its impact on Occitania. This original account will appeal to scholars of medieval France, the Crusades and medieval military history.

Author : Laurence Wade Marvin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511388064
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Occitan War written by Laurence Wade Marvin and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266576
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Albigensian Crusade written by Jonathan Sumption and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly things - including the Church - were by nature sinful. Jonathan Sumption's acclaimed history examines the roots of the heresy, the uniquely rich culture of the region which nurtured it, and the crusade launched against it by the Church which resulted in one of the most savage of all medieval wars. '[Sumption] never fails to keep his narrative lively with the particular and the pertinent. He is excellent on the tactics and spirit of medieval warfare.' Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times

Author : M. D. Costen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719043321
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade written by M. D. Costen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elaine Graham-Leigh
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831297
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade written by Elaine Graham-Leigh and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study takes the case of the Trencavel Viscounts of Beziers and Carcassonne, who were the only members of the higher nobility to lose their lands to the crusade, and argues that an understanding of how the Occitan nobility fared in the crusade years must be based in the context of the politics of the noble society of Languedoc, not only in the thirteenth century but also in the twelfth."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gérard Gouiran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351028367
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle written by Gérard Gouiran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays Gérard Gouiran, one of the world's leading and much-loved scholars of medieval Occitan literature, examines this literature from a primarily historical perspective. Through texts offering hitherto unexplored insights into the history and culture of medieval Europe, he studies topics such as the representation of alterity through female figures and Saracens in opposition to the ideal of the Christian knight; the ways in which the narrating of history can become resistance and propaganda discourse in the clash between the Catholic Church and the French on the one hand, and the Cathar heretics and the people of Occitania on the other; questions of intertextuality and intercultural relations; cultural representations fashioning the West in contact with the East; and Christian dissidence in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Written in an approachable style, the book will be of historical, literary and philological interest to scholars and students, as well as any reader curious about this hitherto little-known Occitan literature. (CS1087).

Author : Professor of French Language and Literature Simon Gaunt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199272077
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature written by Professor of French Language and Literature Simon Gaunt and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-02-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the association of love and death in medieval French and Occitan courtly literature using an approach informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis and Jacques Derrida. Offers new readings of canonical authors and texts, including Bernart de Ventadorn, Jaufre Rudel, Chrétien de Troyes, Thomas's Tristan, the Prose Lancelot, the Tristan en prose, La Mort le roi Artu, Marie de France, Le Chastelaine de Vergy, Le Castelain deCouci, and Le Roman de la Rose.

Author : A. Amit
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137300167
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Language Policies in France during World War II written by A. Amit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Germany's occupation of France in WWII, French regional languages became a way for people to assert their local identities. This book offers a detailed historical sociolinguistic analysis of the various language policies applied in France's regions (Brittany, Southern France, Corsica and Alsace) before, during and after WWII.

Author : Catherine Léglu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317755650
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade written by Catherine Léglu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade brings together a rich and diverse range of medieval sources to examine key aspects of the growth of heresy and dissent in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the Church’s response to that threat through the subsequent authorisation of the Albigensian crusade. Aimed at students and scholars alike, the documents it discusses – papal letters, troubadour songs, contemporary chronicles in Latin and the vernacular, and inquisitorial documents – reflect a deeper perception of medieval heresy and the social, political and religious implications of crusading than has hitherto been possible. The reader is introduced to themes which are crucial to our understanding of the medieval world: ideologies of crusading and holy war, the complex nature of Catharism, the Church’s implementation of diverse strategies to counter heresy, the growth of papal inquisition, southern French counter-strategies of resistance and rebellion, and the uses of Latin and the vernacular to express regional and cultural identity. This timely and highly original collection not only brings together previously unexplored and in some cases unedited material, but provides a nuanced and multi-layered view of the religious, social and political dimensions of one of the most infamous conflicts of the High Middle Ages. This book is a valuable resource for all students, teachers and researchers of medieval history and the crusades.