Massacre At Montsegur: A History Of The Albigensian Crusade - Hardcover

The crusade was the Catholic Church's response to the rapid growth of a rival Christian religion in the very heart of Christendom - the religion of the Cathars. These heretics drew their strength from the conciousness of belonging to a faith that had never seen eye to eye with Catholicism and was more ancient than resistance movement, so that in the end it was not just the survival of the Cathar faith that was at stake but also that of the Languedoc itself as an autonomous and independent region of France.

Zoé Oldenbourg was born in St Petersburg in 1916 and was educated at the Lycée Molière and the Sorbonne in Paris. The author of a number of outstanding historical novels, including The World is Not Enough and The Cornerstone, which won the Prix Fémina in 1953, her historical works include Catherine of Russia and Massacre at Montségur.