Amor 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 were pacifist, ecstatic, feminist, and contrary to the Catholic Church of thirteenth century France. They were exterminated in a classic crusade and Inquisition, invented to […]
Learning by Doing: Coping with Inquisitors in Medieval Languedoc
May 30, 2011 By
The burning at Mont-Aime: Thibaut of Champagne’s preparations for the Barons’ Crusade of 1239
May 21, 2011 By
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
March 27, 2011 By
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.
The Albigensian Crusade: A Comparative Military Study, 1209-1218
March 25, 2011 By
The 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 1218. The purpose of the research is to move beyond the conventional focus on Catharism and its attendant heresy in order to examine the martial […]
Making Enemies: Latin Christendom in the Age of Reform
March 24, 2011 By
Making 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 nature of a cancer, gradually diffusing itself over the neighbouring places, has already infected vast numbers throughout Gascony and other provinces; and while, serpent-like, it […]
On Cathars, Albigenses, and good men of Languedoc
February 13, 2011 By
Eckbert of Schönau and Catharism: A Reevaluation
January 30, 2011 By
Eckbert of Schönau and Catharism: A Reevaluation By Robert Harrison Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol.22:1 (1991) Introduction: During the past forty years, scholars of medieval heresy have reconstructed the rise of Catharism in twelfth-century France and Italy with ever greater clarity, aided by the discovery of valuable primary sources and an […]
Sibilla Peyre of Arques: The Motivated Construction of Experience and Self in an Inquisitorial Deposition
January 24, 2011 By
By the end of the thirteenth century Languedocian Catharism had been almost entirely eradicated, but the first decade of the fourteenth century saw what is often referred to as the ‘Autier revival’.
Medieval Castle for Sale in Southern France
February 26, 2010 By
This medieval castle for sale in southern France dates back to the year 978. The castle was built by the Viscounts of Narbonne to guard a main road – it lies 13 km southwest of Narbonne, and sits on a a rocky knoll 180 m (590 ft) above sea level.
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