Author: Alan Mattingly
Publisher: Cicerone Press
Keywords: cathar, france, cicerone, guides, west, south, region, castles, walks
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2005-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 185284423X
ISBN-13: 9781852844233

This guide offers 30 walks based on the once strategically important castles that dominate the foothills of the Pyrenees. Each walk has as its focal point a castle or other location associated with Cathar history (mostly the 13th century). Summaries of the historical connections of each location with the Cathar period are given, and together these relate the story of the downfall of the Cathar Church, from the massacre in Beziers in 1209 to the siege at Montsegur in 1244, which ended with the burning alive of over 200 believers who refused to renounce their Cathar faith.

Author: Carol Lansing
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: medieval, italy, heresy, cathar, amp, purity, power
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-09-27
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0195149807
ISBN-13: 9780195149807

Catharism was a popular medieval heresy based on the belief that the creation of humankind was a disaster in which angelic spirits were trapped in matter by the devil. Their only goal was to escape the body through purification. Cathars denied any value to material life, including the human body, baptism, and the Eucharist, even marriage and childbirth. What could explain the long popularity of such a bleak faith in the towns of southern France and Italy? Power and Purity explores the place of cathar heresy in the life of the medieval Italian town of Orvieto. Based on extensive archival resea

Author: Mr. Yuri Stoyanov
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: yale, nota, bene, heresy, cathar, dualist, religions, antiquity, god
Number of Pages: 490
Published: 2000-08-11
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0300082533
ISBN-13: 9780300082531

Among the most intricate historical and religious mysteries of medieval Europe are those posed by the "Great Heresy"-the sudden rise and spread of medieval dualism that represented the doctrine that cosmos and man are constant battlegrounds between the forces of good and evil and their supernatural protagonists. This fascinating book offers the first comprehensive history of religious dualism, from its early expressions in late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster through the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mithraic Mysteries, and the Great Gnostic teachers to its revival in medieval Europ