And so began the Albigensian Crusade, one of the most disgraceful acts of religious persecution ever. Historians are divided on whether Arnold Amaury actually uttered those words; they were ...

Following the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics (13th century) it became a powerful episcopal city. Built in a unique southern French Gothic style from local brick in characteristic red ...

The horrendous injunction of Abbot Arnald-Amaury to the French knights at the fall of Béziers in 1209 set the brutal tone of the Albigensian Crusade. Little wonder that the surviving Cathar ...

In the Fourth Crusade of 1202-4, the Venetians diverted the army from Egypt to sack Constantinople, while the Albigensian Crusade of 1209-29 devastated a flourishing Occitanian culture. But recent ...

Albi Cathedral, a Unesco World Heritage Site, was built in the aftermath of the Albigensian Crusade. Photo Credit: Nadine Godwin In the Middle Ages, this city was part of a cultural area known as ...