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The Occitan War
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ISBN: 9780521872409 0521872405 9780511496561 9780521123655 0511387075 9780511388064 0511388063 9780511387074 0511496567 9786611254674 6611254676 9780511384202 0511384203 0521123658 1107180708 1281254673 0511386036 0511382405 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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In 1209 Simon of Montfort led a war against the Cathars of Languedoc after Pope Innocent III preached a crusade condemning them as heretics. The suppression of heresy became a pretext for a vicious war that remains largely unstudied as a military conflict. Laurence Marvin here examines the Albigensian Crusade as military and political history rather than religious history and traces these dimensions of the conflict through to Montfort's death in 1218. He shows how Montfort experienced military success in spite of a hostile populace, impossible military targets, armies that dissolved every forty days, and a pope who often failed to support the crusade morally or financially. He also discusses the supposed brutality of the war, why the inhabitants were for so long unsuccessful at defending themselves against it, and its impact on Occitania. This original account will appeal to scholars of medieval France, the Crusades and medieval military history.

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