Dec 18, 2009
Article abstract: The Albigensian crusade represents an attempt by Roman Catholic authorities to control French unification in southern Europe, which had long been the crucible of exotic influences.
Adherents of Manichean or dualist ways of thinking emerged in Languedoc, or southern France, in the eleventh century. This part of Europe was outside the rigid control of the French Capetian dynasty and the Holy Roman Empire. Remnants of Jewish and Muslim cultures added to a divers population that absorbed Middle Eastern and North African...
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