The one author who has gone over the whole subject, including the entire course of the Albigensian War, is Lea, whose vast learning and exactitude in matters of fact would have made him a great historian had he possessed a grain of imagination or the least spark of sympathy with the Middle Ages. In this respect Luchaire gains through citizenship in a Catholic country, but his book ends with Innocent’s death.
I have included a number of books used to illustrate particular points, and also a handful of old-fashioned Protestant historians whom the reader will value more for what their works will tell them about themselves than about their subject. Limborch is not so bad; his learning has evidently fought (and lost) a real battle against his partisanship.
“Life of St. Dominic and a Sketch of the Dominican Order.” Introduction by Most Rev. J. S. Alemany. P. O’Shea: New York.
“The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography.” Houghton, Mifflin and Co.: New York and Boston. Riverside Press: Cambridge.
“Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres,” Introduction by Ralph Adams, Cram Henry Adams. Houghton, Mifflin and Co.: New York and Boston. Riverside Press: Cambridge, 1913.
“The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma,” Henry Adams. Houghton, Mifflin and Co.: New York and Boston. Riverside Press: Cambridge, 1913.
“In St. Dominic’s Country” (Preface by Rev. T. M. Schwetner, O.P., S.T.L.), C. M. Antony. Longmans, Green and Co.: London and New York.
“The Emancipation of Massachusetts,” Brooks Adams. Houghton, Mifflin and Co.: New York and Boston, 1919.
“La Bataille de Muret” (Pamphlet), Joseph Anglade. Edouard Champion: Paris, 1913. Edouard Privat: Toulouse, 1913.
“La Conquête de la Vicomté de Carcassonne” (Pamphlet), J. Astruc. Published August, 1912.