
Friar of Carcassonne
In 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 Mac...
In 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 Mac...
