Cathars Archive
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Conflict and Coercion in Southern France
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper endeavors to examine the mechanisms by which the crown of France was able to subsume the region of Languedoc in the wake of the Albigensian Crusade in the thirteenth century. -
Understanding terrorism and radicalisation: a network approach
Posted on February 5, 2013 | No CommentsOur most recent work with this model has concentrated on the suppression of a network in the case of the Inquisition and the Cathar heresy in France in the 13th century; and on the spreading of a network in the case of the conversion to Protestantism of England in the mid-16th century. -
In search of a missing link: The Bogomils and Zoroastrianism
Posted on January 13, 2013 | No CommentsBoth Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism are dualist relig- ions. Implicit in the beliefs held true by these religions is the notion of co-equal and co-eternal principles. Implicit in this notion is the belief that both good and evil exist and are acted upon from the very beginning. -
Memories of Space in Thirteenth-Century France: Displaced People After the Albigensian Crusade
Posted on December 11, 2012 | No CommentsIt is clear that displacement was a policy of the crusade, a measure of its effectiveness, and a highly personal experience for individuals who were forced to flee the crusading army. -
Labyrinth, Part 2
Posted on December 8, 2012 | No CommentsSo we continue with the exciting conclusion of last week's two part mini-series, Labyrinth. Alice is being pursued by unsavory attackers, and Carcassonne has all but fallen. -
Labyrinth
Posted on December 1, 2012 | No CommentsA review of Part 1 of author Kate Mosse's, "Labyrinth". Cathars, Crusaders and the Holy Grail! -
“The Eucharist and the Negotiation of Orthodoxy in the High Middle Ages”
Posted on November 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper is part of Adam Hoose's dissertation. It examined the differences between Waldensians and Franciscans in their treatment of the Eucharist. It also explored why the Waldensians were unsuccessful in their bid to become a legitimate religious order and were eventually marginalized as heretics. -
Waldensians at the turn of the fifteenth century in the Duchy of Austria: Perception of Heresy and Action against Heretics
Posted on October 1, 2012 | No CommentsThe other major field of research that pertains to my current investigation is the inquisition; or the repression of heresy, as Richard Kieckhefer asserts. He notes that there was no such a thing as the Inquisition, because it existed only as mere offices, or functions of carrying out the inquisitorial justice, and did not as an institution as such, not even institutions, as was later the case in the sixteenth century. -
Dualist heresy in Aquitaine and the Agenais, c.1000-c.1249
Posted on September 2, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis will examine whether the heresy in eleventh-century Aquitaine was dualist and will then discuss twelfth- and thirteenth-century Catharism in an Aquitainian context. -
Bogomils, Cathars, Lollards, and the High Social Position of Women During the Middle Ages
Posted on June 24, 2012 | No CommentsDuring the 12th century, if not slightly earlier, Western Europe lived through a period of economic and social upheavel termed by many historians the 12th c. Renaissance. One of its aspects is related to the considerable emancipation of women mostly in Southern France, a development which spread over to Italy, Flanders, and later, England. One can even detect social zones where real emancipation was axhieved. -
Medieval reads for Dad!
Posted on June 15, 2012 | No CommentsFather’s Day is just around the corner - here are some fun medieval reads to make his day special! -
The War Against Heresy in Medieval Europe
Posted on June 4, 2012 | No CommentsNo surviving writer suggested on the eve of the millennium that the propagation of heresy of heresy among the people of Western Europe was active, or that any of the heresies of antiquity had survived. -
From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism’s Charismatic Appeal
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe Cathars believed in a dualist cosmology that posited the existence of two coeternal gods, one good and one evil. -
CATHARISM AND THE TAROT
Posted on November 27, 2011 | No CommentsThe idea of heretical origins for the Tarot still attracts attention because the Medieval heresies share two important traits with modern Tarotists. -
The Friar of Carcassonne
Posted on October 15, 2011 | No CommentsThe Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars By Stephen O’Shea Douglas and McIntyre, 2011 ISBN 978-1-55365-551-0 Publisher’s Synopsis: The dramatic story of... -
In her voice: The destruction of the Cathars in Languedoc
Posted on August 21, 2011 | No CommentsIn her voice: The destruction of the Cathars in Languedoc By Diana Jane Morton Master’s Thesis: Wichita State University, 2009 Abstract: The following thesis is a narrative history of the... -
CONFLICT AND CONSCIENCE: IDEOLOGICAL WAR AND THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE
Posted on July 23, 2011 | No CommentsCONFLICT AND CONSCIENCE: IDEOLOGICAL WAR AND THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE BAUER, MAJ, USA B.S., JOHN W., (United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1995) M.A., Military History, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (2007) Abstract... -
The Polemical use of the Albigensian Crusade during the French Wars of Religion
Posted on July 18, 2011 | No CommentsThe Polemical use of the Albigensian Crusade during the French Wars of Religion Racaut, Luc French History 13, 3 (1999) Abstract From the outset of the Reformation, Catholic authors had sought... -
Amor vs. Roma: Cathars and the Birth of the Inquisition
Posted on June 16, 2011 | No CommentsAmor vs. Roma: Cathars and the Birth of the Inquisition From the CBC Radio series Ideas, this 2-part show examines the rise and fall of the Cathars, medieval Christians who... -
Learning by Doing: Coping with Inquisitors in Medieval Languedoc
Posted on May 30, 2011 | No CommentsLearning by Doing: Coping with Inquisitors in Medieval Languedoc By James Given Published Online (2010) Introduction: The twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were a period of great development in the... -
The burning at Mont-Aime´: Thibaut of Champagne’s preparations for the Barons’ Crusade of 1239
Posted on May 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe burning at Mont-Aime´: Thibaut of Champagne’s preparations for the Barons’ Crusade of 1239 By Michael Lower Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 29 (2003) Abstract: A little more than a... -
The Problem of Cathar Apocalypticism
Posted on March 27, 2011 | No CommentsOf all the heresies in the Middle Ages, none posed more of a threat to the Catholic Church in either perception or reality than did Catharism. -
The Albigensian Crusade: A Comparative Military Study, 1209-1218
Posted on March 25, 2011 | No CommentsThe Albigensian Crusade: A Comparative Military Study, 1209-1218 By Michael Taulier Abstract: This thesis addresses the military aspects of the Albigensian Crusade in the region of Languedoc between 1209 and... -
Making Enemies: Latin Christendom in the Age of Reform
Posted on March 24, 2011 | No CommentsMaking Enemies: Latin Christendom in the Age of Reform By R.I. Moore Historien, Vol.6 (2006) Introduction: In the district of Toulouse a damnable heresy has lately arisen, which, after the... -
On Cathars, Albigenses, and good men of Languedoc
Posted on February 13, 2011 | No CommentsIt argues that some commonplace notions about the Cathars, virtually unaltered for over a hundred years, are far from settled — especially when inquisition records from Languedoc are taken into account.
