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Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 119 pages
Poids : 455 g
Dimensions : 19cm X 23cm
ISBN : 978-2-8177-0304-6
EAN : 9782817703046

Discovering the Cathars

De Lucien Bély,

Chez Sud-Ouest

Collection(s) | Discovering

Paru le 02/05/2013

Broché 119 pages

photograph by Jacques Jolfre

notes and photo captions by Raymond Sicard

translation by Angela Caldwell

Tout public

Quatrième de couverture

The Cathars

From the 11th to the 13th century, South-Western France experienced on of the darkest periods in its history. The Cathars, who were considered a heretics, were handed over to the Inquisition. Catharism, based on a dualist concept of life and conerned to return to the purity of early Christianity was eradicated.

Biographie

Lucien Bély, Professor of Modern History at the Sorbonne, tells the story of this tragic episode. This book also invites its readers to visit an area in which the castle ruins are part and parcel of its beauty. Places of interest for their connection with the Cathars are described in détail.
The photographs are by Jacques Jolfre who has been enthusiastically visiting these places steeped in mystery and innate beauty for several decades.