The Albigensian Crusade
"An admirably luicid account of the tragic demise of Languedoc's unique civilisation . . . Scholarship carried with élan."--R.L. Storey, The Times (London)"Excellent . . . A model of sound history written with style and intelligence for the non-specialist reader."--Listener"Sumption writes with fluent scholarship and with amiable and ironic succinctness. He never fails to keep his narrative lively with the particular and the pertinent. He is excellent on the tactics and spirit of medieval warfare."--Frederic Raphael,Sunday Times