New (and not so new) Contributions to the Study of the Battle of Muret

Abstract

An overview of the bibliography of the Battle of Muret (1213) published in the last decade (2002-2012). We discuss the edition of narrative and documentary sources, the bibliographical compilations, the memory of the battle in modern times and, more broadly, contributions to the knowledge of the historical context (Catharism, the Albigensian Crusade, the reign of Peter the Catholic). The focus is on studies of Military History that have attempted to clarify what happened on the battlefield. In this specific area of the warfare, comments on the most recent contributions are complemented by the analysis of works prior to 2002, especially in English, either because they are unpublished and hardly accessible to researchers, or because they deserve to be better placed in the whole historiography of the Battle of Muret.