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Stephen O’Shea.
The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars.

Published London: Profile Books, 2000.
ISBN 1861972709.
ISBN-13 9781861972709.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St. Edmunds.
Size: 144×206×30mm.
Page count: xiii,333pp inc. several monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is a bit scuffed and grubby, some rucks on its edges and corners, noticeable but not severe; pages starting to yellow with age, otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback £8.99]
Weight without packaging: 524g.

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Contents: Languedoc & the great heresy; Rome; Turn of the century; The conversation; Penance & crusade; Béziers; Carcassonne; Bad neighbors; The conflict widens; Time of surprises; Verdict; Toulouse; Return to tolerance; end of the crusade; Inquisition; Backlash; Synagogue of Satan; Twilight in the garden of evil; Bélibaste; Epilogue — in Cathar country.

Illustrations: 25, monochrome
Maps & plans: 6

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 7pp
Index: yes

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