Religion and Spirituality: Gnosticism: Cathars

Offers detailed information and pictures about Cathar lands, the Albigensian Crusade, as well as the Cathar faith.

Information and pictures relating to the history of the Cathars. Can also order "Reflections on Secret Gnostic Traditions."

A review of Malcolm Lambert's academic survey of Catharism.

A review of books on the Albigensian Crusade by Josephy Strayer and Zoe Oldenbourg.

Revival of the ancient Cathar faith and practice.

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.

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.

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.

Description of the modern appeal of Cathar ideas. Extracts from a book about the Cathars (also called 'Cathar Eclipse') and extracts from an illustrated map of the Cathar Crusades.

English translation of the Book of John the Evangelist from the Medieval Sourcebook.

A Cathar Rite. From the Medieval Sourcebook.

What the Roman Catholic Church regards as a neo-Manichean sect that flourished in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Text from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

An account from the churchman Raynaldus against the Albigensians, or Cathars. From the Medieval Sourcebook.

Quotes from original sources on the persecution of the Cathars and Bogomils.