Review of "The Perfect Heresy; the revolutionary life and death of the Medieval Cathars" by Stephen O'Shea

Nicely written popular history about the Cathars with an entirely reasonable focus on southern France and Languedoc. Mainly focuses on the Albigensian crusades and the suppression of the heresy, and not much about how the Cathars grew and became established in the first place. Very little about the intellectual roots of Gnosticism, but hey you can't have everything. I still learned some stuff about Cathar practices, not least the names of the prayers and rituals that they used.

I'd happily read more by this author.