"A prolonged labor of love [and] a model of a kind of penetrating adoration."--Richard Bernstein, New York Times

In this new edition of a classic work, the great Catholic apologist and historian Hilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movements in Chris

Some of the most portentous events in medieval history—the Cathar crusade, the persecution and mass burnings of heretics, the papal inquisition—fall between

A fresh examination of the Cathar heresy, using the records of inquisitorial tribunals to bring out new details of life at the time.