Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324

The village of Montaillou was the last stronghold of the cult of Catharism in medieval France. Under the Inquisition of

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Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in the medieval West, eve

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A captivating journey through off-the-beaten-path French wine country with 100 simple yet exquisite recipes, 150 sumptuo

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Ariel Shepherd is devastated by the sudden loss of her husband, but nothing could have prepared her for inheriting the r

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A sweeping history of American Catholicism from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present

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An observational study of Pakistani society, offering a holistic and humanistic view of village life, particularly the w

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May Mayko Ebihara (1934–2005) was the first American anthropologist to conduct ethnographic research in Cambodia. Svay p

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This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convin

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Shaken by the ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal, and challenged from within by social and theological division, Americ

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