[kj] When Goths Cry...

[sade1]

  True, I just didn't want to further an obscure issue since most people have never heard about cathars, ooccitanian,etc. before. Supposedly, Occitania, Toulouse, etc. still don't consider themselves french.
   
  (Was Occitania same as the Languedoc? 
    I may have missed that in my readings.)
   
    For anyone who may be interested, a good book to read on the Czthars is, 
  "Massacre At Montsegur: A history of the Albigensian Crusade" by Zoe Oldenbourg. 
  It is very thorough and it humanizes the issue and most of all the victims of it all.   
    If anyone has any other recommendations, 
  i'd be interested too, especially if touches on 
  any possible parallels or even influences with Buddhism.

pascal <pascal at ledooz.com> wrote:
        v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}        st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                Well if you are referring to the Cathars,  it actually began in Occitania, which was not part of France, the crusade was a thinly disguised land grab/genocide…the flag on the website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_cross  says something about Wisigoths, but it definitely is not FRENCH
   



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