Title: Amazing event. Unamazing author.
Product review: Ms. Oldenbourg sets out in what I considered a catholic-apologist style, but one clearly leaning away from the 13th century Church. Her tale of the generations of Counts of Toulouse and thier various enemies: the Church, characterized by Pope Innocent III and Simon de Montfort, a brilliant tactician, and the French King (and later Regency) is less than gripping. The events should be read and discussed, for they are fascinating. But Ms. Oldenbourg throws out opinion after opinion, giving a full page of "oh, woe!" after a particularly gruesome murder by a bishop.If you are a schoolteacher, you will bore your students to death. If you absolutely love history, you can get through this book and learn a great deal; the sections describing the Catharist heresy (chapter 4?) and the beginnings of the Inquisition (chapter 11) were definitely informative.If you have to, read this book. If not, read something else.
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