The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade-卡特里战争之歌：阿尔比十字军的历史

作者：Atiwong Suchato

书名：The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade《卡特里战争之歌：阿尔比十字军的历史》

中文背景：阿尔比十字军，亦称卡特里派十字军（1209年至1229年），是教宗诺森三世为铲除卡特里派（又称阿尔比派）对法兰西南部隆格多克发动的长达二十年的军事讨伐。教宗英诺森三世承诺将异端的土地分给参与讨伐的法兰西贵族。许多法兰西北部的领主出兵参与讨伐，称为十字军的主力。战争从1209年持续到1229年──英诺森三世死后十三年才结束，长达20年（1209-1229）。卡特里派在战争中受到沉重打击，大量卡特里派信徒被直接屠杀，或被送进异端裁判所被处死，残余势力转入地下，至14世纪末期，该派逐渐消失。

英文简介：The Song of the Cathar Wars is the first translation into English of the Old Provençal Canso recounting the events of the years 1204-1218 in Southern France. In an effort to extirpate the Cathar heresy, Pope Innocent III launched what is now known as the Albigensian Crusade, but it was fiercely resisted by the lords and people of the Languedoc, if in the end in vain. This ’song’ was written in two parts, the first by William of Tudela, a supporter of the crusade; the second by an anonymous continuer, wholeheartedly in sympathy with the southerners, although not with the heretics themselves. It stands as a historical source of great importance, not least because it depicts the side that lost. The poem is also a skilful, dramatic and often impassioned composition, evoking the brilliant world of landed knights and the glories and bloody realities of battle. Janet Shirley is an award-winning translator of works on the French Middle Ages. Other publications by her include the Song of Roland and, in this Crusade Texts in Translation series, Crusader Syria in the 13th Century and, with Peter Edbury, Guillaume de Machaut: The Conquest of Alexandria.