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Author Weis, René, 1953-

Title The yellow cross : the story of the last Cathars, 1290-1329 / René Weis.

Publication Info. New York : Knopf, 2001.
©2000

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  944.024 WEIS    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description li, 399 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Prologue : Chatelaine of Montaillou -- People of Montaillou -- Steward, the chatelaine and the demon priest : 1291-1301 -- Exodus to Lombardy : 1296 -- Last perfects' return : 1299-1300 -- Betrayal and consolidation : 1300 -- Pierre Maury and the Cathars of Arques -- Montaillou : 1300-1305 -- Cathars and Guillemette Maury : 1305-7 -- Wedding-bells in Montaillou : 1307-8 -- Consolation of Guillaume Guilabert : May 1308 -- Martyrs of Junac : 1308-10 -- Day the soldiers came : 8 September 1308 -- Endgame, and a new beginning : 1309-16 -- Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers : 1317 -- From the Fenouilledes into Catalonia : 1307-14 -- Sant Mateu, Morella, Beceite and Montaillou again : 1315-18 -- Traitor, the perfect, a wedding and a divorce : 1318-20 -- Sting -- Pamiers : 1321-2 -- Last trials of Montaillou -- Inside Allemans prison in 1321 -- Epilogue : Benoit XII and the citoyens.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-377) and index.
Subject Albigenses -- France -- History.
France -- History -- 13th century.
France -- History -- 14th century.
ISBN 0375404902
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