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The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade. By Michael Costen. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997. 229 pp. np.

The pontificate of Innocent III (1198-1216) is generally viewed as a watershed in the history of church-state relations. A serious theologian as well as a canon lawyer and a gifted administrator, Innocent oversaw a vast expansion of papal interests and directed or intervened in affairs as varied and wide-ranging as the Fourth Crusade, the Fo...