Janet Shirley
Ashgate
Paperback
224
2000
The Song of the Cathar Wars is the first translation into English of the Old Proven?al Canso recounting the events of the years 1204-1218 in Southern France. In an effort to extirpate the Cathar heresy Pope Innocent III launched what is now known as the Albigensian Crusade but it was fiercely resisted by the lords and people of the Languedoc if in the end in vain. This ?song? was written in two parts the first by William of Tudela a supporter of the crusade the second by an anonymous continuer wholeheartedly in sympathy with the southerners although not with the heretics themselves. It stands as a historical source of great importance not least because it depicts the side that lost. The poem is also a skilful dramatic and often impassioned composition evoking the brilliant world of landed knights and the glories and bloody realities of battle.
Ashgate
Paperback
224
2000
The Song of the Cathar Wars is the first translation into English of the Old Proven?al Canso recounting the events of the years 1204-1218 in Southern France. In an effort to extirpate the Cathar heresy Pope Innocent III launched what is now known as the Albigensian Crusade but it was fiercely resisted by the lords and people of the Languedoc if in the end in vain. This ?song? was written in two parts the first by William of Tudela a supporter of the crusade the second by an anonymous continuer wholeheartedly in sympathy with the southerners although not with the heretics themselves. It stands as a historical source of great importance not least because it depicts the side that lost. The poem is also a skilful dramatic and often impassioned composition evoking the brilliant world of landed knights and the glories and bloody realities of battle.