Format:
1 online resource (373 pages)
ISBN:
9780199721511
Series Statement:
Pivotal Moments in World History Ser.
Content:
In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of this horrific crusade, drawing in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245. He shows how a millennial fervor about "cleansing" the world of heresy, coupled with a fear that Christendom was being eaten away from within by heretics who looked no different than other Christians, made the battles, sieges, and massacres of the crusade almost apocalyptic in their cruel intensity. In responding to this fear with a holy genocidal war, Innocent III fundamentally changed how Western civilization dealt with individuals accused of corrupting society. This fundamental change, Pegg argues, led directly to the creation of the inquisition.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Dramatis Personae -- Genealogical Charts -- A Most Holy War -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195171310
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195171310
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=415042
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