The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . CHAPTER XIV. THE ALBIGENSIAN WARS. T was a hopeless fight that lay before the defenders of theirliberty. They had no leader. The nobles were not united:each town looked after itself: the country lay open to theinvaders. For the next twenty years the history of Provenceand Tanguedoc offers little but a tedious array of siege, pillage,and massacre, broken only by the intrigues of popes, legates,kings, and princes, each aiming at selfish gains, and oftenstriving by the basest
The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times . CHAPTER XIV. THE ALBIGENSIAN WARS. T was a hopeless fight that lay before the defenders of theirliberty. They had no leader. The nobles were not united:each town looked after itself: the country lay open to theinvaders. For the next twenty years the history of Provenceand Tanguedoc offers little but a tedious array of siege, pillage,and massacre, broken only by the intrigues of popes, legates,kings, and princes, each aiming at selfish gains, and oftenstriving by the basest treachery to outwit the other. The name by which the Cathari are commonly known in modern times comes from the district of Albigeois in Langue- t^ doc, where they were very numerous. Its capital, Albi, bore no especial part in the struggle, and any of several other titles would have fitted them as well as that of Albigenses. Beziers, which is near the Mediterranean, was first at-tacked. Its viscount, Roger, had gone to Carcassonne; itsbishop was with the crusaders, and wished to spare the asked that the here
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