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Peter Autier spent eight months in prison before being burnt on 9 April 1310 in Toulouse.
Sean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
CHAPTER SEVEN · FROM EMPIRE TO EMPERORS Cicero versus Verres
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Gaius Gracchus
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Raymond Roger was coaxed out of the city by a relative to negotiate. The precise details of the deal are not known, but Raymond Roger managed to save the lives of all the people of Carcasonne – including all the Cathars – on the condition that they leave the city. On 15 August, they did just that. They were not allowed to take with them anything mo
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Le XXIe siècle est placé sous le signe de l’entrée dans l’histoire universelle, soit une configuration qui peut sembler très éloignée du monde de la première moitié du XIXe siècle dans lequel a vécu, pensé et écrit Alexis de Tocqueville. L’heure n’est plus à l’ascension de la démocratie mais à sa crise face à l’onde de choc populiste et à l’émergen
... See moreNicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
In 73 BCE, under the leadership of Spartacus, fifty or so slave gladiators, improvising weapons out of kitchen equipment, escaped from a gladiatorial training school at Capua in southern Italy and went on the run.
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Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens. De Animales a Dioses
Whichever side won, as Cicero again observed, the result was set to be much the same: slavery for Rome. What came to be seen as a war between liberty and one-man rule was really a war to choose between rival emperors.