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Episode 8: The hounds of God - medieval heretics and inquisitors

This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama

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The Albigentian Crusade

In 12 o eight, a papal legate was killed in toulouse. This prompted pope innocent the third to call for what is now known as the albigentian crusade. Crusades had previously been waged against moslems, now heretics were the tarket. Despite 20 years of crusade, cathorism had not died out. Instead of surrendering, many good men and women started preaching and forming their rituals in secret. So the church had to find tune its hamp ed approach and call in the professionals. Luckily, the thirteenth century had seen the founding of so called mendicant orders, chiefly dominicans and franciscans.

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