Who were the Cathars?

Let's Talk Religion · Nov 10, 2026 · 35m

In this video we discuss the famous medieval "heretics" known as the Cathars, and the Albigensian crusade which tried to wipe them out.

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Sources/Suggested Reading:

Barber, Malcolm, The Cathars: Dualist heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages, Second edition (Harlow, United Kingdom: Pearson, 2013).

Sennis, Antonio (ed.), Cathars in Question (York: York Medieval Press, 2016).

Moore, R. I., The War on Heresy (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012).

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