A cross-disciplinary synthesis of historical violence statistics that cites, and in its own text prefers a lower figure to, the widely repeated one-million estimate for the Albigensian Crusade's dead.
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Written by a cognitive psychologist, not a historian, synthesizing published atrocity-death estimates rather than conducting primary historical research. Included because its comparison of the 200,000 and one-million figures for the Albigensian Crusade is itself part of the live scholarly conversation about which number is credible, not because the book carries a historian's authority on medieval Languedoc. NotesWritten by a cognitive psychologist, not a historian, synthesizing published atrocity-death estimates rather than conducting primary historical research. Included because its comparison of the 200,000 and one-million figures for the Albigensian Crusade is itself part of the live scholarly conversation about which number is credible, not because the book carries a historian's authority on medieval Languedoc.
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AuthorSteven Pinker
PublisherViking
Publication Year2011
Source TypeBook (popular history)
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Religious Events, 2 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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