The Mystery of the Cathars (TRIH ep 302)
1209 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the historiography behind the Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade, arguing that much of the conventional narrative is misleading. They quote Mark Gregory Pegg and R. I. Moore to show that the label "Cathar" and the idea of a unified dualist church in Languedoc were later constructions.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1209
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)