A Most Holy War —— The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

----- 伟大圣战：阿尔比十字军与基督教王国战争

ISBN: 9780195393101 出版年：2008 页码：284 Pegg, Mark Gregory Oxford University Press

As cliche´d as it now is to see the Albigensian Crusade as a war against the Cathars, such a proposition was new around 1900. Until then the crusade was, rather straightforwardly, regarded as a campaign against the ‘‘Albigensians.’’ The legendary eleventh edition (1910) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica deftly illustrates (as it does with so much Victorian-intoEdwardian thought) the scholarly metamorphosis of Albigenses into Cathari. Both heretics have entries (an editorial concession that, even when ideas change, old notions persist), and, while each essay is erudite, ‘‘Albigenses’’ (by a Frenchman) is clearly the musty antecedent that ‘‘Cathars’’ (by an Englishman) so exuberantly supersedes