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By Janet Shirley

The music of the Cathar Wars is the 1st translation into English of the previous Provençal Canso recounting the occasions of the years 1204-1218 in Southern France. to be able to extirpate the Cathar heresy, Pope blameless III introduced what's referred to now because the Albigensian campaign, however it was once fiercely resisted by means of the lords and folks of the Languedoc, if in any case in useless. This ’song’ was once written in components, the 1st by means of William of Tudela, a supporter of the campaign; the second one by means of an nameless continuer, wholeheartedly in sympathy with the southerners, even though no longer with the heretics themselves. It stands as a old resource of serious significance, no longer least since it depicts the facet that misplaced. The poem can be a skilful, dramatic and sometimes impassioned composition, evoking the bright international of landed knights and the glories and bloody realities of conflict. Janet Shirley is an award-winning translator of works at the French center a long time. different guides through her contain the track of Roland and, during this campaign Texts in Translation sequence, Crusader Syria within the thirteenth Century and, with Peter Edbury, Guillaume de Machaut: The Conquest of Alexandria.

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