The Iron Pincers: Or Mylio and Karvel; A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades

Excerpt from The Iron Pincers: Or Mylio and Karvel; A Tale of the Albigensian CrusadesA new breath blows through this story, the thirteenth of the Eugene Sue series, The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages. The epoch is the Thirteenth Century. The rudeness and coarseness of the period described in the preceding story The Pilgrim's Shell; or, Fergen the Quarryman - now lies two centuries behind. Religious bigotry still reigns su preme, but it now is no more of the coarse nature typified by a Cuckoo Peter, it now partakes of the flavor of a Duke of Montfort amours are no longer of the vulgar type of a Duke of Aquitaine, they now partake of the mental re finement of Courts of Love. Music and poetry chasten the harsh lines of the Thirteenth Century and the season is prepared for the epoch described in the following novel The Iron Trevet; or, Jocelyn the Champion - the age of chivalry. Nevertheless it was at this epoch that the re ligious persecutions of the Albigensians happened. The fell fanaticism of Montfort, the lawlessness of the clergy, and the dissoluteness of the nobility are woven into a nar rative with Mylio the Trouvere and his brother Karvel, the type of religious purity, as the center figures of a story that has all the fascination of drama, in which tears and laughter, freedom and oppression alternate in rapid suc cession - a true picture of its times.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.