Cathars: a religious sect, introduced into Europe from the East in the eleventh century, which flourished in the Languedoc in the twelfth century. Books (6) Original Documents (4) 1. Albigensian Crusade: Cathars and Catharism in the Languedoc - 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. 2. Heresy and the Inquisition: Persecution of Heretics - Christianity Revealed - 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. 3. Journey to the Land of Oc - Offers detailed information and pictures about Cathar lands, the Albigensian Crusade, as well as the Cathar faith. 4. Montsegur and the Cathar Heresy - 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. 5. The Albigenses - 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. 6. Worldwide Assembly of Good Christians - Revival of the ancient Cathar faith and practice. 7. Bulgarian Bogomil and Apocryphal Ideas in Medieval English Culture - Bogomil or proto-Cathar ideas. 8. Cathars (Carthari) regarded as heretics - An account of Catharism from a mainstream Christian point of view, from an internet Resource for Studying the Church in the Middles Ages. 9. Cathars and the Kabbalah - A distinctive forms of medieval kabbalism which had its birth or rather rebirth in the area of the Languedoc. 10. Cathars of the Languedoc - Catharism and its relationship to Dualism, Gnosticism and the Languedoc. 11. The Great Mysteries of the Languedoc - Legends and theories concerning the Cathars of the Languedoc and their links to Rennes-le-Chateau, the Knights Templar, the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Da Vinci Code.

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