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- Albigensian Crusade: Cathars and Catharism in the Languedoc - 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.
- Montsegur and the Cathar Heresy - 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.
- Books on Cathars and the Cathar Wars - Reviews of Books on the Cathars and Cathar Wars in the Languedoc, ranging from popular introductary texs to academic reference works.
- Cathars of the Languedoc - Catharism and its relationship to Dualism, Gnosticism and the Languedoc.
- The Cathars - Book Review - A review of Malcolm Lambert's academic survey of Catharism.
- Journey to the Land of Oc - Offers detailed information and pictures about Cathar lands, the Albigensian Crusade, as well as the Cathar faith.
- Cathares - Châteaux cathares, abbayes, grottes, mégalithes : articles inédits, dictionnaires, visites virtuelles, images de synthèse.
- Balade Cathare - Propose des voyages organisés en pays Cathare. Découverte des villes et des châteaux, ainsi que des vignobles des Corbières. Rouffiac-des-Corbières (11).
- The Siege of Termes (1210) from The Song of the Cathar Wars - Anotated English translation from the Occitan Song of the Cathar Wars: The History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1996)
- An English translation of Bernard Gui, Inquisitors Manual, on the Cathars - Anotated English translation of An Extract from Bernard Gui's fourteenth century Inquisitorial Technique, on the Albigensians (Cathars)
Wikipedia Articles
- Consolamentum - Consolamentum, known as heretication to its critics, was the baptismal sacrament of the Albigenses and other branches of Cathars. Unlike modern mainstream Christianity the Baptism that was used by the majority of Cathars did not involve water, only words, the laying on of hands, and the placing of the Gospel attributed to St-John upon the head of the consoled.
- Durand of Huesca - Durand of Huesca (c.1160-1224) was a Spanish Waldensian, who converted in 1207 to CatholicismHe became an orthodox theologian, author of a Liber Antihaeresis against the Cathars].
- Pasagians - Pasagians were a sect of Judaizing Cathars appearing in Lombardy in the late 12th or early 13th century, possibly appearing earlier in the East. The name, if from the Italian passagieri meaning birds of passage, is either suggestive of an emigration from another place, or their iterant lifestyle.
- Cathar castles - ... the example of Pays Cathare - Cathar Country) to arbitrarily designate the series of fortresses built by the French king on the southern frontier of his lands at the end of the Albigensian Crusade. Some of these sites had known, before the Royal period, fortified villages capable of sheltering Cathars and which were destroyed during the building of citadels.
- Château de Foix - The Château de Foix is a castle which dominates the town of Foix in the French département of Ariège. An important tourist site, it is known as a centre of the Cathars.