Achille LuscherInnocent III and the Albigensian Crusade. / Per. from fr. Nekrasova M. Yu. - St. Petersburg: Eurasia, 2003. - 288 pp. The book by the famous French historian Achille Lusher is dedicated to one of the greatest Popes of the Middle Ages, Innocent III, and his role in the dramatic events of the early 13th century. - a crusade against adherents of the Albigensian (Cathar) heresy, which took root in Southern France. At the center of Luscher’s work is Languedoc, the land of troubadours and beautiful cities. Innocent III organized a crusade into these lands and provoked a clash of two cultures - southern and northern France - as a result of which the South was drowned in blood. But did the Pope really want such an outcome? Luscher shows what the aspirations of the imperious pontiff, who thirsted for domination over the entire Christian world, led to.