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Cathar
Surviving texts from the Cathar tradition, the dualist Christian movement of medieval southern France.
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Texts
Book of the Two PrinciplesThe largest surviving work of Cathar theology — a systematic defence of absolute dualism suppressed for six hundred years until its first publication in 1939.Inquisitorial SourcesRecords preserved by medieval Inquisitors documenting Cathar theology, rituals, and organisation — the voice of a suppressed tradition refracted through its destroyers.Interrogatio JohannisA sacred Cathar scripture preserving dualist cosmogony in the Johannine tradition, brought from Bulgaria to Italy around 1190.Introduction to the CatharsA critical introduction to the Cathars — the dualist Christians of medieval Languedoc, the crusade that destroyed them, the inquisition that hunted their survivors, and the modern scholarly war over whether they ever existed at all.
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