Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

Cathars in Question

[Hardback]

by Antonio Sennis, Bernard Hamilton, Caterina Bruschi, Claire Taylor, David D`avray

Authors
Antonio Sennis +3
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
York Medieval Press
Published
August 2016

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£45.61

Save 43%

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

Cathars in Question

Today's Price £45.61

Frequently Bought Together

Cathars in Question

by Antonio Sennis +4

Hardback

The Once and Future Parish

by Alison Milbank

Paperback

Add both to basket for £64.82 and save £36.17

Product Description

Cathars have traditionally been regarded as the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in the medieval West; historians have considered their set of beliefs, inspired by Balkan dualism, as the most radical among medieval heresies. However, this paradigm has been recently challenged by an alternative view, according to which Catharism was a construct of its persecutors and its supposed radical views are no more than a myth. This volume, bringing together some of the most distinguished international scholars in the field, aims to continue the debate and to open up new areas for reseach. Focussing on duality and anti-materialist beliefs in southern France, northern Italy and the Balkans, it considers a number of crucial issues. These include what constitutes popular belief; how (and to what extent) societies of the past were based on the persecution of dissidents; and whether heresy can be seen as an invention. At the same time, the essays shed new light on some key aspects of the political, cultural, religious and economic relationships between the Balkans and more western regions of Europe in the Middle Ages.