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Author_Stephen O'Shea
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Product details
- ISBN 9781846683206
- Weight: 231g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 10 May 2012
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nearly a century had passed since Languedoc had been put to the sword in the Albigensian Crusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on the land. Any accusation of Catharism invited peril. But repression bred resentment and it was in Carcassonne that resistance began to stir. In 1300 a great orator emerged who brought together the currents of resistance. Three years later the terrible prisons were stormed and the inmates set free. The orator was a Franciscan friar, Bernard Délicieux. The forces ranged against Delicieux included the ruthless Pope Boniface VII, the Machiavellian French King Philip IV and the grand inquisitor of Toulouse Bernard Gui (the villain of The Name of the Rose). This magnificent book, which forms a kind of sequel to Stephen O'Shea's bestselling The Perfect Heresy, tells his inspiring life and tragic story.
Stephen O'Shea, for many years a journalist in Paris and New York, contributed to a wide variety of publications on the arts and translated French feature films. The Friar of Carcassonne is his third book of medieval history. Previous books also published by Profile include A Perfect Heresy [9781861973504] and Sea of Faith [9781861975812]. He currently lives with his two daughters in Providence, Rhode Island. stephenosheaonline.com.
