Offers detailed information and pictures about Cathar lands, the Albigensian Crusade, as well as the Cathar faith.
Revival of the ancient Cathar faith and practice.
Catharism in the Languedoc, Cathar beliefs. Cathars and heretics, the high culture of the troubadours and the Counts of Toulouse. The Role of the Roman Catholic Church: Innocent III, Crusades (The Albigensian Crusade) and the annexation of the Languedoc to France.
Introductuion to the Cathar faith. The significance of events at Montsegur during the Cathar period, including the names, where known, of the Cathars burned alive there. References to primary source material.
Cathar beliefs and their origins in Paulician and Bogomil ideas. Catharism treated as a heresy by the Roman Church. The Medieval Inquisition, including selected source documents.
Text from the Catholic Encyclopedia about what the Roman Catholic Church regards as a neo-Manichean sect: the Cathars who flourished in what is now southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Bogomil or proto-Cathar ideas.
An account of Catharism from a mainstream Christian point of view, from an internet Resource for Studying the Church in the Middles Ages.
A distinctive forms of medieval kabbalism which had its birth or rather rebirth in the area of the Languedoc.
Catharism and its relationship to Dualism, Gnosticism and the Languedoc.
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