Religion and Spirituality: Gnosticism: Cathars

English translation of the Book of John the Evangelist 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.

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

Bogomil or proto-Cathar ideas.

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.

An account of Catharism from a mainstream Christian point of view, from an internet Resource for Studying the Church in the Middles Ages.

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.

Cathar legends brought to life in the maps and charts of Forrester Roberts.

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.

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