06-03-2019, 08:11 AM
(06-03-2019, 06:37 AM)Linda wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why are you not skeptical of your own jumps to conclusion?
Linda, JP has done what I requested: he's found another mountaintop fortress where there was a mass burning of Cathars. I didn't think it possible. I read a lot about Béziers, Carcassonne, Montségur and the Cathar Crusade in general but never encountered the mass burning at Lastours. Not even the Wikipedia articles on Lastours and its Château mention it.
None of this implies that the VMS does not depict Monstségur. I still maintain that it does. It only means that I cannot use that illustration as evidence except to say that it might not be coincidental that the towers depicted in that illustration and in the VMS look remarkably alike: they both depict Cathar mountaintop fortresses of the same epoch and therefore these fortresses (which lie in fairly close proximity to each other) may have been constructed to similar design.
There is no need for us to continue discussion of that illustration. You've won. It seems I've been losing a lot of battles lately but I have not yet lost the war.