Description
Product ID: | 9781784976088 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Cathar |
Authors: | Author: Christopher Bland |
Page Count: | 352 |
Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Set in 13th-century Languedoc: François de Beaufort, a knight and a Cathar, loves three women. He is Cathar by birth, and ultimately by conviction, despite the unrelenting efforts of the Inquisition to stamp out this heresy through war, torture and the stake. How a world was lost. In this compelling historical novel, set in the Languedoc at the end of the 13th century, François de Beaufort, a knight and a Cathar, loves three women – Blanche, Sybille and Beatrice. He is Cathar by birth, and ultimately by conviction, despite the unrelenting efforts of the Inquisition to stamp out this heresy through war, torture and the stake. After surviving two sieges François is sentenced to a pilgrimage of penance to Compostela, and ends up in the Cathar village of Montaillou. And then the Inquisition strikes again. |
Imprint Name: | Head of Zeus |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-03-09 |