Cathars in Question (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages)
By Antonio Sennis.
Description
Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a ""counter-Church"" to orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs, understood to be inspired by Balkan dualism, are often seen as the most radical among medieval heresies. However, recent work has fiercely challenged this paradigm, arguing instead that ""Catharism"" was a construct of its persecutors, mis-named and mis-represented by generations of subsequent scholarship, and its supposedly radical views wer...
ISBN(s)
1903153689, 9781903153680
