The Cathars

Resource Information

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Label

The Cathars

Statement of responsibility

Malcolm Lambert

Creator

• Lambert, Malcolm, (Malcolm D)

Subject

• Christian heresies -- France | Languedoc -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Christian heresies -- Italy -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Church history
• France -- Church history -- 987-1515
• Albigenses
• Italy -- Church history -- 476-1400
• History

Genre

• History
• Church history

Language

eng

Summary

"This is the first fully comprehensive account in English of the most feared and the most mysterious of medieval heretics, still both vilified and romanticized. A crusade was launched to uproot them in the South of France, the Inquisition developed to suppress them, St. Dominic founded his friars to preach against them." "This book puts the Cathars back into the context where they belong - that of medieval Catholicism. It studies the rise and fall of the heresy from the twelfth-century Rhineland to fifteenth-century Bosnia and the Church's counteraction, peaceful and violent. Within the exposition, Italian Cathars are given their rightful place, a chapter is devoted to the puzzle of the Bosnian Church, and perspective is given to Le Roy Ladurie's brilliant but wayward Montaillou. A final survey assesses the legacy of a heresy which still exerts its strange fascination."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

272/.3

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

BX4891.2

LC item number

.L35 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography