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The Rest Is History
The hosts highlighted the book as a vivid, scholarly account of the Albigensian Crusade, emphasizing its powerful imagery of blood‑soaked streets and its analysis of the merging of Latin Christian thought on heresy and holy war. They introduced it while discussing the Cathars and praised it as a thrilling, fantastic work of history. Overall, the episode hosts strongly endorsed it.
Episode: 303: The Bloodiest Crusade
The hosts cited it as a brilliant account of the Albigensian Crusade, noting its vivid description of the merging of Latin Christian thought on heresy and holy war and its haunting imagery of bloodsoaked streets.
It's quoted by Mark Gregory Peck in his book, A Most Holy War, which is a brilliant account of the subject of today's episode, Dominic.
And Pegg in his book describes this as an absolutely fateful moment that it's the merging, he says, of a century or more of Latin Christian thought on heresy and holy war.
So Pagan in A Most Holy War has, I mean, the orb slowly darkened as rivulets of gore spilled down the streets and washed off the bridge.
Peg... begins his book, A Most Holy War, with this incredible description of one of the first ghosts to appear from purgatory.
Episode: 302: The Mystery of the Cathars
The hosts introduced the book as a scholarly account of the Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade, noting it presented the story of the Cathars.
Mark Gregory Pegg in A Most Holy War, The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom, the story of the Cathars.
Episode: 302: The Mystery of the Cathars
The hosts cited Pegg's book while introducing the episode's theme, noting it covered the Albigensian Crusade and the battle for Christendom.
Mark Gregory Pegg in A Most Holy War, The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
Episode: 301: The Real Da Vinci Code
They praised it as a fantastic, thrilling work of history on the Albigensian Crusade.
It's a book called A Most Holy War, The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom by a scholar called Mark Gregory Pegg. It's a fantastic book, absolutely thrilling work of history.