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.
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.
Legends and theories concerning the Cathars of the Languedoc and their alleged links to Rennes-le-Chateau, the Knights Templar, the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Da Vinci Code.
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.
A Baptist view of Gnostics, Dualists and others regarded as proto-Protestants. As well as Cathars ("Albigensians"), he discusses Novatianists, Donatists, Henricians, Petrobrussians and Anabaptists.
Furthermore, as the Cathars saw matter as intrinsically evil, they denied that ... The Cathars' beliefs are thought to have come originally from Eastern Europe and ...
Languedoc Cathars. Cathar beliefs. Cathari and heretics, Catharism and the Albigensian Crusade. The Role of the Roman Catholic Church: Innocent III and his holy wars ...
The Cathars professed a theological dualism in which two coequal divine ... The Perfect were distinguished from other Cathars by the black clothes they wore. ...