Muret 1213 is a treaty that can be enjoyed from start to finish, not to say that pleasure is extreme when reading about a subject so interesting, for Some geeks like me, as this battle was decisive for the history not only of Aragon, but throughout Spain and the setting of Mediterranean Europe.
A scholarship of the author must add the facility to put all that knowledge (and that this is a "summary" of his thesis) to the level of lay readers like me. Also present is very concerned about the issue from all possible optical, taking ownership of each source and even entering the sociological background of each decision, each protagonist. Total
, I've enjoyed most this treaty with many historical novels. So exciting is, and see that the end was seen come ...
Synopsis:
On Thursday, September 12, 1213, troops Catalan and Occitan Aragon King of Aragon Peter's Catholic were facing the castle of Muret, not far from Toulouse. There were the French knights of Count Simon de Montfort, leader of the crusade preached by Pope Innocent III in 1208 against the Cathars of southern France. Military circumstances announced an easy victory of King Pedro and the consolidation of a large English-Occitan feudal monarchy straddling the Pyrenees. However, the battle of Muret became one of those losses that changed the course of Age Media. Left to the Crown of Aragon beheaded for two decades and allowed the incorporation of the territories Occitan a crown of France in full expansion.
Getting into the minds of its protagonists-counts and kings, crusaders and troubadours, bishops and heretics, this book examines the roots of conflict that led to a king of Aragon to die near Toulouse and the consequences of a battle that marked the beginning of the end of the Catalan-Aragonese hegemony in the south of France.
A legendary battle that changed the course of history.
