Seán Martin is a writer, poet and filmmaker. He is the author of The Knights Templar, The Cathars, The Gnostics, The Black Death, Alchemy and Alchemists, A Short History of Disease and, for Kamera Books, Andrei Tarkovsky and New Waves in Cinema. His films include Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas & the Secret History of Cinema ('a fine documentary' – Guardian), Folie à Deux, and a series of documentaries on Tarkovsky: Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev: A Journey and The Dream in the Mirror.
Sean Martin's "Pocket Essential" is an exemplary introduction to
the Cathars
*The Telegraph*
This little book is a remarkable account of an obscure religious
order in Europe in the Middle Ages. It is most definitely
thought-provoking.... in only 164 pages author Sean Martin manages
to do something that more prolific writers have failed to do with
volume upon volume of exhaustively and ridiculously over-researched
text; provide a concise and focused rendering of a topic of
historical interest and do so in a way that is not condescending,
pedantic or self-complimentary. Martin's style of writing is
simple, but never dull as he relates the history of Catharism...
This is history at its best and a great read
*Bookstove*
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