The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade
Janet Shirley
The Song of the Cathar Wars is the first translation into English of the Old Provençal Canso recounting the events of the years 1204-1218 in Southern France. In an effort to extirpate the Cathar heresy, Pope Innocent III launched what is now known as the Albigensian Crusade, but it was fiercely resisted by the lords and people of the Languedoc, if in the end in vain. This ‘song was written in two parts, the first by William of Tudela, a supporter of the crusade; the second by an anonymous continuer, wholeheartedly in sympathy with the southerners, although not with the heretics themselves. It stands as a historical source of great importance, not least because it depicts the side that lost. The poem is also a skilful, dramatic and often impassioned composition, evoking the brilliant world of landed knights and the glories and bloody realities of battle. Janet Shirley is an award-winning translator of works on the French Middle Ages.
Anno:
2017
Casa editrice:
Routledge
Lingua:
english
ISBN 10:
1351881701
ISBN 13:
9781351881708
Collana:
Crusade Texts in Translation
File:
EPUB, 650 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2017
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