L'Épopée Cathare, Book by Michel Roquebert: 5 volumes. (Privat;
v1 1970, v2 1977, v3 1986, v4 1989, v5 1998. The definitive
work on the history of the Cathar war. 
The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade, Book
by Michael Costen, Manchester University Press, 1997. Very
good introduction to the subject. 
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MORE INFORMATION
If you are interested in the Cathars, their history and their beliefs, there is no shortage of material. The problem is sorting the wheat from the chaff. Here is some of the wheat.
SOURCE DOCUMENTS
Gnostic and Cathar Documents
The
Gospel of St Thomas A
Gnostic gospel: The Book of John the Evangelist
New Testament & Cathar Ritual. Translation by Jean Duvernoy of MS PA 36, Bibliotèque de la Ville de Lyon:
Orthodox Documents
Anna
Comnena, on the Bogomils
Accounts of the Cathar Crusades
The
Siege of Toulouse 1217-18 according to The Chronicle of William
of Puylaurens, Chapters 26-8 Canso de la crozada - Guillaume de Tudèle
Catholic & Inquisition Documents
Inquisition Documents - Jacques Fournier
Medieval Sourcebook, Primary Documents Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers 1318-1325: The Inquisition Record. [At SJSU] English translation by Nancy P. Stork of selected confessions by supposed heretics to Bishop Jacques Fournier and the Inquisition at Pamiers.
Accused of holding Cathar beliefsGuillaume Fort of Montaillou, accused of being a Cathar believer, and burned alive as a relapsed heretic on 2 August 1321. Brune Pource, widow of Guillaume Pourcel of Montaillou, daughter of Prades Tavernier, accused of holding cathar beliefs and of associating with Cathars Fabrissa den Riba de Montaillou., accused of holding cathar beliefs and of associating with Cathars Béatrice de Planissolles, noblewoman, Chatelaine de Montaillou, later wife of Barthélemy Amilhac, suspected of Cathar beliefs. Barthélemy Amilhac, priest and husband of Béatrice de Planissolles suspected of Cathar beliefs. Grazide Lizier, widow of Pierre Lizier of Montaillou and, the local priest's concubine, suspected of Cathar beliefs. Bernard Franque of Goulier, accused of dualist beliefs (a good v a bad god). Arnaud Cogul de Lordat, accused of dualist and docetic beliefs. Guillaume Guilabert of Montaillou, deceased, accused of being a Cathar. Raimonde den Arsen of Montaillou, accused of holding Cathar beliefs. Alamande Guilabert, widow of Jean Guilabert of Montaillou, accused of greeting a Cathar. Arnaud Faure of Montaillou, convicted of associating with Cathars. Bernard Benet of Montaillou, accused of having associated with Cathars. Guillaume Autast, Bailiff of Ornolac, accused of believing in reincarnation, doubting the doctrine of the resurection of the dead, and suspected of other heresies. Guillemette Benet, Widow of Bernard Benet of Ornolac, accused of doubting the doctrine of the resurection of the dead = Guillemette d'Ornolac Jacqueline d'en Carot: accused of doubting the doctrine of the resurection of the dead. Arnaud de Savinhan of Tarascon, accused of doubting Catholic doctrine including the Resurrection of the dead. Pierre Magre, of Rabat, accused of associating with Cathars. Aude Fauré, wife of Guillaume Fauré, of Merviel, accused of doubting the doctrine of transubstantiation. = Aude de Merviel = Aude Arnaud de Monesple, Priest, accused of not reporting "heretical" beliefs
Accused of holding Waldensian Beliefs
Raymond de Sainte-Foy, aka Raymond de la Côte, accused of being a Waldensian (Vaudois = the Poor of Lyons) Deacon and burned alive for refusing to swear an oath. Jean de Vienne = Jean Marinie, r, accused of being a Waldensian (Vaudois the Poor of Lyons) believer, and burned alive for refusing to swear an oath. Huguette de Vienne, wife of Jean de Vienne or Jean Marinier, accused of being a Waldensian (Vaudoisthe Poor of Lyons) believer, and burned alive for refusing to swear an oath. Agnes Francou, accused of being a Waldensian (Vaudoisthe Poor of Lyons) believer, and burned alive for refusing to swear an oath. (= Agnes)
Accused of other "heresies"Pierre Sabatier: of Varilhes, accused of pointing out that the Catholic practice of placing a lighted candle in the mouth of a dying person was as much use as placing a lighted candle in their anus. Guillemette Battegay, widowow of Pierre Battegay of Pamiers, accused of associating with [cathar ?] heretics = Guillemette Arnaud Gelis, also called Botheler "The Drunkard" of Mas-Saint-Antonin: accused of communicating with the dead Navarre Bru, widow of Pons Bru of Pamiers: accused of having talked to Arnaud Gelis about her dead husband. Baruch of Germany: Interrogation of a Jew who had been forced to convert to Roman Catholicism, but remained a practicing Jew
Rainerius Sacconi, Summa on the Cathars and the Poor of Lyons
Inquisition Documents - Bernard de Caux and Jean de St Pierre
Records of Inquisitors Bernard de Caux and Jean de St Pierre in the Lauragais 1245-1246, 1253 (MS 609 Biblioteque Municipal de Toulouse) - with introductions, by Jean Duvernoy:
Inquisition Documents - Geoffroy d'Ablis
Inquisition Register of Geoffroy d'Ablis - (MS lat. 4269 B.N. Paris) - with introductions, by Jean Duvernoy:
Sentences of Jacques Fournier & Jean de Beaune, delivered at the cemetry of St-John de Pamiers on 8 March 1320 (fragment) "Sermon de Pamiers" - MS AD Ariège J 127 - in Latin, with introduction, in French, by Jean Duvernoy. Register of Inquisitor Jean Galand - Deposition of Bertrand de Lagarrigue in 1285 - (Doat XXVI, ff° 245 - 254 v°) In Latin with French translation, by Jean Duvernoy. Enquiry by Bernard de Caux - in Bas-Quercy, Toulousain (Doat XXII, f° 1 to 106,) In Latin with French translation, by Jean Duvernoy. Agen (1243-44), Cahors (1244-45), Toulouse (1246-1247). Table of names (people +places) Fragment of the Register of Jean de Saint Pierre and Reginald de Chartres - Lauragais (MS Bonnet) - 1256 In Latin with French introduction and translation, by Jean Duvernoy. Register of Pons de Parnac and other Inquisitors of Toulouse, Lauragais 1273 - 1282 (Doat XXV et XXVI ff° 1-79). In Latin with French translation, by Jean Duvernoy. Register DDD of the Inquisition of Carcassonne. (Sentences 1323-1327) (Béguins, Narbonnaise et Biterrois) Doat XXVII. In Latin with French introduction, by Jean Duvernoy. Lodève 2 July 1323, Pamiers 7 August 1324, Carcassone 23 February 1325, Carcassonne 1 March 1327. Register GGG of the Inquisition of Carcassonne. (Sentences 1328-1329) (Béguins, Narbonnaise et Biterrois) Doat XXVIII. In Latin with French introduction, by Jean Duvernoy. Carcassonne 11 November 1328, Prouille 24 December 1328, Narbonne 9 December 1328, Pamiers 13 January 1329, Béziers 19 Mayi 1329, Carcassonne 8 September 1329.
Other Catholic DocumentsCanon
Four of the Council of Tours (1163) Canon
Three of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) Bernard
Gui,
Extract from the Inquisitors' Manual [1307-1323], Practica inquisitionis
heretice pravitatis on the Waldensians Bernard
Gui,
Extract from the Inquisitors' Manual [1307-1323], Practica inquisitionis
heretice pravitatis on the Beguines Bernard
Gui,
Extract from the Inquisitors' Manual [1307-1323], Practica inquisitionis
heretice pravitatis on the Albigensians (Cathars) Angelo Clareno,
a Spiritual Franciscan: On Torture
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BOOKS
Books on Catharism and the Cathars
Books on Catharism
Reviews
of books on Cathars & Catharism
Books on the Cathar Crusades
Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229: Preaching in the Lord's Vineyard; by Beverly Mayne Kienzle ; Hardcover: 280 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x 9.50 x 6.42; Publisher: York Medieval Pr; (May 2001) ; ISBN: 190315300X
The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption ;
Paperback: 272 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 8.49 x 5.32
Publisher: Faber & Faber; (June 2000); ISBN:
0571200028 ; Hardcover;
Publisher: Faber & Faber; (April 1978; ASIN:
0571110649
The Albigensian Crusades (Ann Arbor Paperback Series); by Joesph R. Strayer, Joseph Strayer, Carol Lansing (Designer); Paperback: 283 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 8.18 x 5.46 Publisher: University of Michigan Press; (July 1992); ISBN: 0472064762
Massacre at Montsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade
by Zoe Oldenbourg ; Paperback: 432 pages
; Dimensions (in inches): 1.33 x 8.46 x 5.44;
Publisher: Phoenix Press, London WC2; (June 2001);
ISBN: 1842124285; (
The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens: The Albigensian Crusade and Its Aftermath; by W. A. Sibly (Translator), M. D. Sibly (Translator), G. F. Pegg; Hardcover: 198 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.87 x 9.46 x 6.34 ; Publisher: Boydell & Brewer; (July 2003); ISBN: 0851159257
Books on the Papal Inquisition
Rene Weis, The Yellow Cross: The Story of the
Last Cathars 1290-1329 by s (Hardcover)
Mark Mettler, Heretics: An Evaluation of Cathar Faith and
Practice: An Interpretation of the Inquisition
Record of Bishop of Pamiers, Jacques
Fournier, Le Registre d'inquisition de Jacques Fournier
(Paris: Mouton, 1978) as Translated from Latin into French by Jean
Duvernoy.
John H. Arnold, Inquisition and Power: Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc (Middle Ages Series); Hardcover: 328 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.15 x 9.60 x 6.62; Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; (August 2001); ISBN: 0812236181
Raymond A. Mentzer, Heresy Proceedings in Languedoc, 1500-1560, Part A (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 74); Paperback ; Publisher: Amer Philosophical Society; (August 1984); ISBN: 0871697459
James B. Given, Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc; Paperback: 255 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.66 x 8.96 x 6.06 ; Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr; (December 2001); ISBN: 0801487595;
Click on the following link for recommended
Books on Dualism and other Heresies
Books on Languedoc History
Knights of the Cloister: Templars and Hospitallers in Central-Southern Occitania 1100-1300 by Dominic Selwood ; Paperback: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.76 x 9.19 x 6.11 ; Publisher: Boydell & Brewer; (November 2002) ; ISBN: 0851158285
Peasants of Languedoc; by Emmanuel L. Ladurie, John Day (Translator); Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.80 x 9.02 x 6.05 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref); (December 1977); ISBN: 0252006356
Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc; by Gustaf Sobin; Paperback: 304 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.73 x 8.02 x 6.00; Publisher: University of California Press; (November 1999); ISBN: 0520222458
Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France : State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc by William Beik (Author); Paperback: 396 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.87 x 8.85 x 5.93; Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (June 1989); ISBN: 0521367824
How They Kept the Faith: A Tale of the Huguenots of Languedoc (Huguenot Inheritance Series, #3); by Grace Raymond ; Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 7.75 x 5.25 Publisher: Inheritance Publications; (June 1996); ISBN: 0921100647
Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity, and Praxis in Rural Languedoc (Suny Series in National Identities); by Winnie Lem ; Paperback: 268 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.62 x 8.88 x 5.88 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr; (May 1999); ISBN: 0791441881
Histoire du Languedoc; by Emmanuel le roy Ladurie; Paperback ; Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France (PUF); ISBN: 2130427308
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ACADEMIC RESOURCESAcademic Papers and Articles
The Virgin Mary in Cathar Thought, Sarah Hamilton,
Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
Journal of Religious History, Special Issue: Cathar Heresy
Inquisitors and Heretics in Thirteenth-Century Languedoc: Edition and Translation of Toulouse Inquisition Depositions, 1273-1282.Ed. Dr Pete Biller (Professor of History) York University, Caterina Bruschi and Shelagh Sneddon. (Brill: Leiden, 2011).
'Cathars and the Material World', by Dr Pete Biller (Professor of History) York University in God's Bounty? The Churches and the Natural World, Studies in Church History 46 (Boydell and Brewer: Woodbridge, 2010), pp. 89-110.
'Deep is the Heart of Man, and Inscrutable: Signs of Heresy in Medieval Languedoc', by Dr Pete Biller (Professor of History) York University in Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson, ed. H. Barr and A.M. Hutchison, Medieval Church Studies 4 (Brepols: Turnhout, 2005), pp. 267-80.
'Cathar Peacemaking', by Dr Pete Biller (Professor of History) York University in Christianity and Community in the West: Essays for John Bossy, ed. S. Ditchfield, St Andrews Studies in Reformation History (Ashgate Press: Aldershot, 2001), pp. 1-23.
'William of Newburgh and the Cathar Mission to England', by Dr Pete Biller (Professor of History) York University in Life and Thought in the Northern Church c.1100-c.1700: Essays in Honour of Claire Cross, ed. D. Wood, Studies in Church History, Subsidia, 12 (Ecclesiastical History Society, The Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 1999), pp. 11-30.
'Women and Texts in Languedocian Catharism', by Dr Pete Biller (Professor of History) York University in Women, the Book and the Godly, ed. L. Smith and J.H.M. Taylor (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 1995), pp. 171-82.
'Cathars and their supporters in the northern Languedoc', Claire Taylor, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Nottingham University, presented at the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2001.
'Innocent III, King John and the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1216)', Claire Taylor Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Nottingham University, presented at 'Pope Innocent III and his World', Hofstra University, New York, May 1997.
Review: L'histoire du Catharisme en discussion: Le 'Concile' de Saint-Félix (1167). Oxford Journals, English Historical Review, Volume120, Issue486, pp. 500-502.. http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/120/486/500.2.full.pdf+html
Papas Nicetas: A Byzantine Dualist in the Land of the Cathars,
by D Obolensky, 1983
David Cherrett, Cathar Ecclesiology: An Example of a Heresy's Institutionalisation, 1991 (previously unpublished.). A interesting view of the Cathar Church hierarchy, touching on the veracity of the Acts of the Council of Saint-Félix (currently a hot topic in Cathar studies because it is cetral to the revisionist case). Any comments to dcherrett@hotmail.com.
Catching Fire from Dominic's Vision. The Coming of the Preachers, Barbara Beaumont OP Paper presented at a meeting of the International Commissionhs of the Dominican Order, Prouilhe, France, April, 2006 celebrating the coming 800th anniversary of the foundations of the Order, largely about the founding of Prouilhe.
Anotated English translation by James McDonald of Voltaire's account of the Crusade against the Cathars of the Languedoc
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLES
Anotated
copy of the 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia entry on the Cathari Anotated
copy of the 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia entry on the Albigenses
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Time Magazine: "Religion: Massacre of the Pure", 28 April, 1961 New York Times; "The Besieged and the Beautiful in Languedoc, 6 May 2010",
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Melvyn
Bragg (Lord Bragg), In Our Time on Radio 4 Arques, Museum: located in the house of René Neli, the man who revived interest in the Cathars early in twentieth century. Poor. Montsegur, Museum: located in the modern village
of Montsegur and featuring many finds from excavations at Montsegur.
Excellent. Centre d'Études Cathares , Carcassonne - now defunct Source Documernts - Primary Document Petrus Iohannes Olivi: Selections from the Apocalypse Commentary (1247/8-1298). Extracts from various documents concerning the War against the Cathars: Minerve, (the tile of the site does not accurately describe its contents) Sources cited
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CATHAR COUNTRY
The MidiThe Midi France : www.midi-france.info/ Recommended website on southern France
Occitanie / The LanguedocAbout-France : https://about-france.com/regions/languedoc.htm/ recomended web page on part of the Occitanie Region (previously the Languedoc-Roussillon) About-France : https://about-france.com/regions/midi-pyrenees.htm/ recomended web page on part of the Occitanie Region (previously the Midi-Pyrénées)
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Montaillou,
abridged English version, Penguin (London, 1978), Book by A
good account of a coda to the main story of the Cathars, based on
Gnosticism - Cathars and Catharism: Historical Fact or a
Delusion of the Inquisition? - 2021 - By Dr Justin Sledge,
part of his Esoterica Series
