Radical in their ideas and endowed with a deep spirituality, the Cathars rejected the materialism, treated women as equals, they accepted the difference of creed, advocated free love and claimed that hell does not exist. But above all, the rebels questioned the authority of the Church and its concept of good and evil, thus causing that totter the system. In this situation, Innocent III, supported by feudal lords, he promoted war campaigns that, from 1209 to 1229, served a successful mission: to exterminate the Cathars. The ...
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Radical in their ideas and endowed with a deep spirituality, the Cathars rejected the materialism, treated women as equals, they accepted the difference of creed, advocated free love and claimed that hell does not exist. But above all, the rebels questioned the authority of the Church and its concept of good and evil, thus causing that totter the system. In this situation, Innocent III, supported by feudal lords, he promoted war campaigns that, from 1209 to 1229, served a successful mission: to exterminate the Cathars. The journalist Stephen O'Shea presents a illustrating picture of medieval France, as well as an evocation of another age which suggests that religious intolerance is timeless.
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