Cathars Gnosticism Religion and Spirituality

Cathars: a religious sect, introduced into Europe from the East in the eleventh century, which flourished in the Languedoc in the twelfth century.

• - An account of Catharism from a mainstream Christian point of view, from an internet Resource for Studying the Church in the Middles Ages.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Information and pictures relating to the history of the Cathars. Can also order "Reflections on Secret Gnostic Traditions."
  
• - 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 Crusade.
  
• - 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
  
• - Cathar legends brought to life in the maps and charts of Forrester Roberts.
  
• - Offers detailed information and pictures about Cathar lands, the Albigensian Crusade, as well as the Cathar faith.
  
• - Bogomil or proto-Cathar ideas.
  
  

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