Begun while its author sat in the New York legislature, this history looks for precedents of religious and political coercion and finds them in thirteenth-century Languedoc. Nickerson describes the Albigensian heresy, Innocent III’s crusade against it, the battle of Muret and the rise of the mendicant orders and the Inquisition, with an epilogue comparing it all to Prohibition.
A lively, opinionated study introduced by Hilaire Belloc and written from a sympathetic Catholic angle. Download the free EPUB.