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Also known as: Albigensians
Article History
Category: History & Society
Also called:
Albigensians
Date:
1000 - 1399
Areas Of Involvement:
Christianity
Roman Catholicism
Related People:
Folquet De Marseille
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Albigenses, the heretics—especially the Catharist heretics—of 12th–13th-century southern France. (See Cathari.) The name, apparently given to them at the end of the 12th century, is hardly exact, for the movement centred at Toulouse and in nearby districts rather than at Albi (ancient Albiga). The heresy, which had penetrated into these regions probably by trade routes, came originally from eastern Europe. It is exceedingly difficult to form any very precise idea of the Albigensian doctrines because present knowledge of them is derived from their opponents and from the very rare and uninformative Albigensian texts which have come down to us. What ...(100 of 352 words)

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