Helen Carr

From persecuted to persecutors: the story of early Christianity

There is no redemption in this account of the birth of Latin Christendom, with ‘heretics’ suffering cruelly for the beliefs, just as Christian martyrs had under the Romans

A 13th-century miniature of Minerve in the Languedoc, a ‘heretic’ town besieged by Simon de Montfort during the Albigensian Crusade. [Getty Images]
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