Size : 129 mm
5.08 inches
In XII?me century beliefs from Orient were propagated in Europe, especially in the south-west of France. They tended to simplify Christianity and to divide believers, known under the name of Cathare or Albigensian in two classes, whose elitist "the perfect ones", lived completely detached from the goods of the world. Judged heretics by the Church, these beliefs were fought by the words, then by the weapons then when, at the beginning of XII?me century, a crusade was issued against them. Cut off in their fortresses from Languedoc, Cathares fought during a half century against the attacks of the knights of the North of France, before being definitively beaten by the head office of Mons?gur in 1244.