Nearly a century had passed since the French region of Languedoc had been put to the sword in the Albigensian Crusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on the land. Any accusation of Catharism invited peril. But repression bred resentment and it was in Carcassonne that resistance began to stir. In 1300 a great orator emerged there to bring together the currents of resistance. Three years later the terrible prisons were stormed and the inmates set free. The orator was a Franciscan friar, Bernard Délicieux. The forces ranged against him included the ruthless Pope Boniface VII, the Machiavellian French King Philip IV and the grand inquisitor of Toulouse, Bernard Gui (the villain of The Name of the Rose).
This magnificent book, which forms a kind of sequel to
Stephen O’Shea ‘s bestselling
The Perfect Heresy, tells Délicieux’s inspiring life and tragic story.
Circa l’autore
Stephen O’Shea is an historian and the acclaimed author of
Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World,
The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars, and
Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I. Born in Toronto, he now lives in the United States and France.
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