Cathar

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• Book of the Two Principles — The largest surviving work of Cathar theology — a systematic defence of absolute dualism suppressed for six hundred years until its first publication in 1939.
• Inquisitorial Sources — Records preserved by medieval Inquisitors documenting Cathar theology, rituals, and organisation — the voice of a suppressed tradition refracted through its destroyers.
• Interrogatio Johannis — A sacred Cathar scripture preserving dualist cosmogony in the Johannine tradition, brought from Bulgaria to Italy around 1190.
• Introduction to the Cathars — A 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.