The Occitan War - A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209–1218

Laurence Marvin offers one of the first studies of the Albigensian Crusade as military and political history rather than religious history and traces these dimensions of the conflict from 1209 to 1218. He presents a history of the struggle, the personalities involved and the impact of the crusade on Occitania.