In the first of two extracts from her new book, Revolution in Carcassonne, Elaine Graham-Leigh explains how and why the city ...

Some places feel straight out of a medieval legend—stone walls stretching into the distance, towers rising above the rooftops, and narrow lanes winding through centuries of history... Carcassonne, the ...

Secondly, the crusade’s sites are admittedly picturesque, and the drama has an appealing epic character. Finally, we are living in a period of darkness, anguish, desperateness, wars, massacres ...

The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade by Costen, M. D Publication date 1997 Topics Albigenses, Heresies, Christian -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500, France -- Church ...

With an archaeological and architectural record dating back more than 2,000 years and cultural connections ranging from the 13th-century Cathars and the Albigensian crusade to the modern day ...

54. Simon de Montfort (1218, Occitania) - Killed by stone projectile during siege 55. Louis VIII of France (1226) - Possibly poisoned during Albigensian Crusade ...

As will history buffs and conspiracy theorists: the Cathar heresy and the Albigensian Crusade has something for just about everyone, in part because the Cathars were so thoroughly wiped out by ...