A Most Holy War - The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

Zusatztext Compelling account. Informationen zum Autor Mark Pegg is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. Klappentext The Albigensian Crusade, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other Christians, lasted twenty bloody years--a long savage war for the soul of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of this horrific crusade. Pegg draws in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245, accounts of ordinary men and women remembering what it was like to live through such brutal times. In responding to heresy with a holy genocidal war, Innocent III fundamentally changed how Western civilization dealt with individuals accused of corrupting society. This change, Pegg argues, led directly to the creation of the inquisition, the rise of an anti-Semitism, and even the holy violence of the Reconquista in Spain. "A bold, erudite, engaging, and superbly written study of what has long been one of the most central topics in medieval and Mediterranean history." --Teofilo F. Ruiz, Professor of History, UCLA Zusammenfassung Pegg's narrative of the massacres of the crusades - a fervour of 'cleansing' the world of heresy, and a fear that Christendom was being eaten away by heretics - is gripping. Innocent III's holy genocidal war fundamentally changed how Western civilization dealt with individuals accused of corrupting society, and led to the creation of the inquisition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Dramatis Personae Genealogical Charts A Most Holy War Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Mark Gregory Pegg, Pegg Mark Gregory
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9780195393101
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539310-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Pivotal Moments in World History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, European History, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Blasphemy, Heresy & Apostasy, Middle East, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Church history, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Specific wars and campaigns, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Crusades, Blasphemy, Heresy, Apostasy, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General