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God's Heretics: The Albigensian Crusade
By Aubrey Burl
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This title provides a vivid account of the way the Crusade and its legacy turned and twisted for over a hundred years. It focuses on the personalities on sides, their motivations and objectives, creating for the modern reader an overwhelming impression of the powerful beliefs that drove persecutor and victim.
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Reviews for God's Heretics
Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a good book that lost the opportunity to be a great book through its own machinations (or rather, that of its author). The writing is crisp, but at times goes into a diversion that derails the history, jumping back on track a little later without warning. The side trips are interesting, but often will appear later in the story, and should have been left linear rather than presented without warning in the midst of an otherwise chronological text. In addition, there are a few too many stray commas that make reading occasionally difficult, especially when you find the places later from which those commas escaped, leaving a run-on sentence without adequate punctuation. Otherwise, an interesting, well written history of the Albigensian crusade, without sparing either side from the brutalities committed in the name of belief. The fact that many of the players had the same name (Raymonds formed an entire army of their own) means that the book could have used some sort of flow chart to keep the players separated. The footnoting and sourcing was also somewhat erratic. But don't let the negatives turn you away - the book is (mostly) well-written, well-researched, and readable.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a good book that lost the opportunity to be a great book through its own machinations (or rather, that of its author). The writing is crisp, but at times goes into a diversion that derails the history, jumping back on track a little later without warning. The side trips are interesting, but often will appear later in the story, and should have been left linear rather than presented without warning in the midst of an otherwise chronological text. In addition, there are a few too many stray commas that make reading occasionally difficult, especially when you find the places later from which those commas escaped, leaving a run-on sentence without adequate punctuation. Otherwise, an interesting, well written history of the Albigensian crusade, without sparing either side from the brutalities committed in the name of belief. The fact that many of the players had the same name (Raymonds formed an entire army of their own) means that the book could have used some sort of flow chart to keep the players separated. The footnoting and sourcing was also somewhat erratic. But don't let the negatives turn you away - the book is (mostly) well-written, well-researched, and readable.