This work aims to reconstruct one of the most vividly documented fragments of medieval life concerning the late Cathar community in south-west France. Following the inquisition of the 1240s in which 10,000 Cathars were burned at the stake, it seemed this early heretical movement had been fully quashed. Fifty years later however, a revival was started, centred around the small town of Montaillou and led by the charismatic Authies brothers. It would be another 30 years before Rome finally stamped out the movement.
- ISBN10 0670910511
- ISBN13 9780670910519
- Publish Date 30 November 2000 (first published 2 November 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Viking
- Format Paperback
- Pages 512
- Language English