Cathar / Christopher Bland.
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TextPublisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 339 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784976064 (hardback)Subject(s): Christian heresies -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Fiction | Albigenses -- Fiction | Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | France -- History -- 13th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: This beautiful historical novel is a saga of heroism and heartbreak, as a young Cathar believer loses his aristocratic inheritance and becomes a fugitive from the Inquisition. During the 12th and 13th Centuries, the Cathars in south west France posed such a threat to Roman Catholicism, that the Inquisition was tasked to destroy every single one of them. Francois de Beaufort will lose the castle which is his inheritance, be horribly maimed in battle, see the woman he loves imprisoned and tortured for her faith. But he vows to fight back, to survive - and to rescue her.
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"Love and war in 13th century France" -- Cover.
This beautiful historical novel is a saga of heroism and heartbreak, as a young Cathar believer loses his aristocratic inheritance and becomes a fugitive from the Inquisition. During the 12th and 13th Centuries, the Cathars in south west France posed such a threat to Roman Catholicism, that the Inquisition was tasked to destroy every single one of them. Francois de Beaufort will lose the castle which is his inheritance, be horribly maimed in battle, see the woman he loves imprisoned and tortured for her faith. But he vows to fight back, to survive - and to rescue her.
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