medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I think Mr Landes has it right. Caesarius - a writer surely not
especially careful about source authentication as any reader can
easily attest - was a Cistercian. That order was especially
important and active in the building of what finally became the
Albigensian Crusade, and the white monks obviously loved this kind
of anecdote. There is also the possibility that the Cistercians,
who one recalls had once sent no less a person than Bernard of
Clairvaux to preach against the Cathars, blew the gasket because of
their final involvement in the Midi. They were replaced during the
crusade in leadership by the newly appearing mendicants. They'd
won a victory, but lost the war. John Mundy
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