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Author Weis, Rene, 1953-

Title The yellow cross : the story of the last Cathars, 1290-1329 / Rene Weis.

Imprint New York : A.A. Knopf, 2001.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  272.3 W434y    ---  Available
Edition 1st American ed.
Description li, 399 p. [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-382) and index.
Contents Prologue : Chatelaine of Montaillou -- People of Montaillou -- Steward, the chatelaine and the demon priest : 1291-1301 -- Exodus to Lombardy : 1296 -- Last perfects' return : 1299-1300 -- Betrayal and consolidation : 1300 -- Pierre Maury and the Cathars of Arques -- Montaillou : 1300-1305 -- Cathars and Guillemette Maury : 1305-7 -- Wedding-bells in Montaillou : 1307-8 -- Consolation of Guillaume Guilabert : May 1308 -- Martyrs of Junac : 1308-10 -- Day the soldiers came : 8 September 1308 -- Endgame, and a new beginning : 1309-16 -- Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers : 1317 -- From the Fenouilledes into Catalonia : 1307-14 -- Sant Mateu, Morella, Beceite and Montaillou again : 1315-18 -- Traitor, the perfect, a wedding and a divorce : 1318-20 -- Sting -- Pamiers : 1321-2 -- Last trials of Montaillou -- Inside Allemans prison in 1321 -- Epilogue : Benoit XII and the citoyens.
Subject Albigenses -- History.
Christian heresies -- France -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
France -- Church history -- 987-1515.
ISBN 0375404902

 
    
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