Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Questions about the Cathars 1
5. 2 The Paradigm of Catharism; or, the Historians’ Illusion 21
6. 3 The Cathar Middle Ages as a Methodological and Historiographical Problem 53
7. 4 The Heretical Dissidence of the ‘Good Men’ in the Albigeois (1276–1329): Localism and Resistance to Roman Clericalism 79
8. 5 The heretici of Languedoc: Local Holy Men and Women or Organized Religious Group? New Evidence from Inquisitorial, Notarial and Historiographical Sources 112
9. 6 Cathar Links with the Balkans and Byzantium 131
10. 7 Pseudepigraphic and Parabiblical Narratives in Medieval Eastern Christian Dualism , and their Implications for the Study of Catharism 151
11. 8 The Cathars from Non-Catholic Sources 177
12. 9 Converted-Turned-Inquisitors and the Image of the Adversary: Ranier Sacconi Explains Cathars 185
13. 10 The Textbook Heretic: Moneta of Cremona’s Cathars 208
14. 11 ‘Lupi rapaces in ovium vestimentis’: Heretics and Heresy in Papal Correspondence 229
15. 12 Looking for the ‘Good Men’ in the Languedoc: An Alternative to ‘Cathars’? 242
16. 13 Principles at Stake: The Debate of April 2013 in Retrospect 257
17. 14 Goodbye to Catharism? 274
18. Index 314