Three secrets. Two women. One Grail ... A spellbinding novel of destiny and betrayal.

In the 13th century, a group of heretics in southwest France, the Cathars, became a serious threat to the Catholic church. In several waves of repression, thousands of Cathars were killed. Yet so ardent was their faith that, early in the next century, the Cathars rose one last time. This title tells the story of this historical episode.

The Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France. Their subversive beliefs brought down on them the wrath of Popes and monarchs and provoked a brutal 'Crusade' against them.

Presents an account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, this book shows the lives of a cast of village characters.

A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when the Catholic Church waged war against heretics in its own ranks

* A mediaeval historical saga set in 13th century France.

This work explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battegrounds between forces of good and evil. Integrating political, cultural and religious history, Yuri Stoyanov illuminates the dualist religious systems.

The gripping true story of a peaceful sect who were wiped out in Europe's first genocide, the Albigensian Crusade.

IT TAKES A GENIUS TO HIDE A SECRET IN PLAIN VIEW... The international phenomenon now in paperback: mystery, intrigue and death combine in a riveting historical thriller that reveals the unknown secrets behind Leonardo Da Vinci's controversial painting of The Last Supper.

A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village which enables him to amass a fortune of. This tale begins with buried treasure and turns into a historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, and the Knights Templar.

The struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome. The first English translation of the book that reveals the Cathar stronghold at Montsegur to be the repository of the Holy Grail.

Eight centuries ago the Languedoc was a rich semi-independent principality on the Mediterranean, where a persuasive heresy of eastern origin challenged the orthodoxy of Catholicism. This is an account of the ensuing crusade, and the concomitant destruction of the Languedoc cultural tradition.

Throughout history Man's search for knowledge has revealed strange truths. this title explores the allure and the hidden history of the esoteric religious beliefs and investigates how these societies have come to gain a powerful hold upon the popular imagination.

In the 13th century, the Catholic Church repressed the Cathars, who had settled in the French Pyrenees. Later, the Nazi Otto Rahn became interested in Catharism and sent investigators to France. Was the Grail perhaps a sacred Egyptian artefact? This book explains the enigmatic relationship between the Cathars and the Templars.

An illustrated introduction to the war against the heretics of Languedoc, launched in 1209, combined with a description of the political, economic, religious and social conditions of south-western France in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Presents an account of the most feared and the most mysterious of medieval heretics. A crusade was launched to uproot them in the south of France, the Inquisition was developed to suppress them, and St Dominic founded his friars to preach against them. This book studies the rise and fall of the heresy from the 12th-century to 15th-century.

This title provides a vivid account of the way the Crusade and its legacy turned and twisted for over a hundred years. It focuses on the personalities on sides, their motivations and objectives, creating for the modern reader an overwhelming impression of the powerful beliefs that drove persecutor and victim.

Malcolm Barber traces the origins and spread of Cathar dualist ideas, assesses their attraction for contemporaries, and describes the reaction of the ecclesiastical and lay authorities in the form of preaching campaigns, intellectual refutation, crusade, and inquisitorial investigations.

An apocalyptic thriller and a secret history of film - Sunset Boulevard meets The Da Vinci Code!