The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption, winner of the Wolfson History Prize, is an acclaimed account of the crusade against the Cathars in medieval France.
Jonathan Sumption is a former History Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a practising QC. He is the author of Pilgrimage and The Albigensian Crusade, as well as the first three volumes in his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War - Trial by Battle, Trial by Fire and Divided Houses. He was awarded the 2009 Wolfson History Prize for Divided Houses.
"An admirably luicid account of the tragic demise of Languedoc's
unique civilisation . . . Scholarship carried with elan."--"R.L.
Storey, The Times (London)"
"Excellent . . . A model of sound history written with style and
intelligence for the non-specialist reader."--"Listener"
"Sumption writes with fluent scholarship and with amiable and
ironic succinctness. He never fails to keep his narrative lively
with the particular and the pertinent. He is excellent on the
tactics and spirit of medieval warfare."
--Frederic Raphael, "Sunday Times"
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