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- Title
Albigenses in the Antipodes: An Australian and the Cathars.
- Authors
PEGG, MARK GREGORY
- Abstract
This article is a wide-ranging discussion of the 'conventional picture of Catharism' and why everything traditionally understood by most scholars about these heretics is wrong. It arises out of Peter Biller's criticism that, 'as an Australian historian who works in the United States,' I am leading the 'troops' in a sweeping campaign 'to dismantle our picture of Catharism.' The stakes are high in this debate. If heresy is fundamentally misunderstood, then Latin Christianity is fundamentally misunderstood, and so what it means to study the medieval world is fundamentally misunderstood.
- Subjects
FRANCE; PHILOSOPHY of history; ACADEMIC debating; ALBIGENSES; HISTORIOGRAPHY; LATER Crusades, 13th-15th centuries; MEDIEVAL civilization; MEDIEVAL church, 600-1500; INQUISITION; MEDIEVAL Christian heresies; CHRISTIAN heretics; FRENCH church history; MEDIEVAL French history
- Publication
Journal of Religious History, 2011, Vol 35, Issue 4, p577
- ISSN
0022-4227
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9809.2011.01143.x