The Cathar heretics of Languedoc in France, and their terrible fate, have fascinated people for centuries. The Cathars were dissident, pacifist Christians who believed that an evil deity had created ...

The Albigensian Crusade, the first of its kind against Europeans and Christians, was formally launched by Pope Innocent III in 1209, ushering in an era of abattoir Christianity in the Languedoc that ...

MMORPG.com: Can you give us some background on the Cathar race? How do they fit into the Star Wars lore? Cory Butler: One of the reasons we chose Cathar is because they are new and unfamiliar to many ...

Rachael Kohn: They were the most feared of mediaeval Christian sects: they were the Cathars. Hello, and welcome to The Ark, I'm Rachael Kohn. Their territory stretched from Italy to France and the ...

THERE’S nothing like a dose of medieval barbarism to give you a hearty appetite. Under the noonday sun, I was scrambling up a rugged mountain trail toward four stone towers called the Châteaux de ...

Making a modern reader care about a 13th-century heretical sect and its destruction is not an easy task, but journalist and translator Stephen O’Shea manages it effortlessly in his new book. The ...

Catharism, a medieval offshoot of Gnostic Christianity, burned through the Catholic landscape of 13th-century Europe as swiftly as a plague. To the Catholic Church, it was very nearly as welcome. By ...