Medieval reads for Dad!
Father’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
No 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
The Cathars believed in a dualist cosmology that posited the existence of two coeternal gods, one good and one evil.
CATHARISM AND THE TAROT
The 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
The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars By Stephen O’Shea Douglas and McIntyre, 2011 ISBN…
In her voice: The destruction of the Cathars in Languedoc
Listen, you can hear the soft rustling of foot soldiers in the valley deep below as they build the mass burning pyre. Tomorrow morning we will walk down from our Montsegur fortress and step up to our deaths.
Conflict and Conscience: Ideological War and the Albigensian Crusade
This thesis is a case study on ethics within war. The thirteenth century Albigensian Crusade was a war against a heretical religious ideology known as Catharism whose tenets threatened the social order of Europe.
The Polemical use of the Albigensian Crusade during the French Wars of Religion
The Polemical use of the Albigensian Crusade during the French Wars of Religion Racaut, Luc French History 13, 3 (1999) Abstract From the outset…
Amor vs. Roma: Cathars and the Birth of the Inquisition
Amor vs. Roma: Cathars and the Birth of the Inquisition From the CBC Radio series Ideas, this 2-part show examines the rise and…
Learning by Doing: Coping with Inquisitors in Medieval Languedoc
Among these is the rich mass of documentation relating to the inquisition of heretical depravity in Languedoc in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
The burning at Mont-Aime: Thibaut of Champagne’s preparations for the Barons’ Crusade of 1239
A little more than a month before he planned to go on crusade to the Holy Land, Thibaut IV of Champagne (1201–1253) presided over one of the largest burnings of heretics ever to take place in northern France, in which some 180 people were executed.
The Problem of Cathar Apocalypticism
Of 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.