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More Information about the Cathars and Catharism

Arques, Museum:  located in the house of René Neli, the man who revived interest in the Cathars early in twentieth century.
Personal Website:  dealing with Heraldry:   (http://www.briantimms.com)  including early rolls showing the arms and seals of the Counts of Toulouse  5 stars
Personal Website:  dealing with The history and heraldry of the Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade.   http://www.earlyblazon.com  5 stars
Forrester Roberts' Website:   Book 'Cathar Eclipse' and beautifully illustrated 'Spirit of Crusade' map of the Cathar Crusades.  http://pages.britishlibrary.net/forrester-roberts/cathars.html  
Medieval Warfare Website:  http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/sources/puylaurens.htm: The Siege of Toulouse 1217-18.   according to The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens. English Translation of Original Source document.
Medieval Warfare Website:  http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/sources/historiaalbigensis.htm: The Siege of Termes (1210),  according to the Historia Albigensis. English Translation of Original Source document.
Medieval Warfare Website:  http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/sources/ctit3.htm: Seige of Termes (1210).     The Siege of Termes from the Song of the Cathar Wars (1210). English Translation of Original Source document by Janet Shirley
Gnostic Website:  http://www.gnosis.org/library/appa.htm: The Apparelhamentum,     general confession lithurgy from the Lyons Ritual. English Translation of Original Source document.
Medieval Sourcebook:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cathar-appara.html: The Apparelhamentum,   Cathar Rite: General Confession liturgy from the Lyons Ritual.
Gnostic Website:  http://www.gnosis.org/library/traditio.htm: Traditio,     spiritual baptism, from the Lyons Ritual.
Medieval Sourcebook:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cathar-traditio.html: Traditio   Cathar Rites: Traditio: Immersion in the Perfect Community from the Lyons Ritual.
Medieval Sourcebook: Bernard Gui: Technique of Interrogations [1307-1323] (also available in Castillian) Primary Document
Weslian Website:  http://wesley.nnu.edu/noncanon/writing/jonevan.htm: Bogomil Gospel of St John the Evangelist     From "The Apocryphal New Testament" M.R. James-Translation and Notes Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924
Medieval Sourcebook:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cathar-gospel.html: Book of John the Evangelist   Cathar Gospel. English Translation.
Medieval Sourcebook:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/heresy1.html: Accusations against the Albigensians     This account is from an early thirtheenth century chronicle by Raynaldus, a Catholic opponent of Catharism.
Medieval Sourcebook:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/comnena-bogomils.html: The Bogomils   Anna Comnena, c. 1110 (Anna was the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor): in English translation from the Greek. The Bogomils were almost certainly the source of Catharism in the West.
Medieval Sourcebook:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gui-cathars.html: Bernard Gui on the Albigensians     Primary Document translated into English. Gui was an inquisitor (He features in Umbero Ecco's novel The Name of the Rose).
Medieval Sourcebook:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bernardgui-inq.html: Inqisitors' Manual  [1307-1323]  Primary Document translated into English.
Medieval Sourcebook: [Tierney 64.2] http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/heresy2.html: Technique of Interrogations [1307-1323] English translation of primary Document.(also available en castellano).
Medieval Sourcebook: [Tierney 64.1] http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lat4-c3.html: Fourth Lateran Council: Canon 63 - on Heretics   Primary document translated into English.
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 Cathar heretics and Jews to Bishop Jacques Fournier and the Inquisition at Pamiers.
  • Agnes Francou (member of the sect of the Poor of Lyons - a Waldensian)
  • Arnaud Gélis (drunkard and prognosticator)
  • Barthélemy Amilhac (priest and husband of Béatrice de Planissolles)
  • Baruch (Jew baptized under threat of death)
  • Béatrice de Planissolles (noblewoman)
  • Grazide Lizier (widow and priest's concubine)
  • Guillemette Battegay (widow)
  • Jacqueline den Carot (scoffer)
  • Navarre Bru (widow)
  • Primary Document Angelo Clareno, a spiritual Franciscan: On Torture, early 14th Cent.
    Primary Document The Case of Na Prous, a beguine, 1325.
    Primary Document Petrus Iohannes Olivi: Selections from the Apocalypse Commentary (1247/8-1298).
    Primary Document Caesarius of Heisterbach: Medieval Heresies, from Dialogue on Miracles, V. Discussion of Waldensians, Albigenses, and "intellectual heretics" at Paris.



    Primary Documents 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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