{"product_id":"9780802778017","title":"The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt Against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1300, the French region of Languedoc had been cowed under the authority of both Rome and France since Pope Innocent III s Albigensian Crusade nearly a century earlier. That crusade almost wiped out the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians whose beliefs threatened the authority of the Catholic Church. But decades of harrowing repression-enforced by the ruthless Pope Boniface VIII , the Machiavellian French King Philip the Fair of France, and the pitiless grand inquisitor of Toulouse, Bernard Gui (the villain in The Name of the Rose)-had bred resentment. In the city of Carcassonne, anger at the abuses of the Inquisition reached a boiling point and a great orator and fearless rebel emerged to unite the resistance among Cathar and Catholic alike. The people rose up, led by the charismatic Franciscan friar Bernard Délicieux and for a time reclaimed control of their lives and communities. Having written the acclaimed chronicle of the Cathars \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Heresy\u003c\/i\u003e , Stephen OShea returns to the medieval world to chronicle a rare and remarkable story of personal courage and principle standing up to power, amidst the last vestiges of the endlessly fascinating Cathar world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Heresy\u003c\/i\u003e :\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At once a cautionary tale about the corruption of temporal power...and an accounting of the power of faith ...It is also just a darn good read.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An accessible, readable history with lessons ...that were not learned by broad humanity until it saw 20th-century tyrants applying the goals and methods of the Inquisition on a universal scale.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123363299568,"sku":"9780802778017","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802778017_p0.jpg?v=1763727635","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802778017","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}