Catharism
Anonymous
In the late eleventh century, an eastern Gnostic sect known as the Bogomils arrived in the Languedoc region of France and northern Italy. There it took root and flourished over the next three centuries as the Cathar religion, until its destruction in the Albigensian Crusade.
This volume is a collection of source texts from the Cathar tradition containing rare material on the theological doctrine, esoteric apocrypha, and rituals that comprised the basis of Cathar religious practice. The sources are among the most complete and significant Cathar texts known to have survived their persecution by the Church.