Cathar Country - Languedoc Tours
Specialist Tours in South of France
Recommended Reading List.
You do not need to know anything at all about Catharism or the
Cathars to come on our courses, but you might get more out of
it if you have some familiarity with the subject.
There are lots of books on the subject in English as well as
in French. Many are very good. Below are some of our recommendations
for books in English, divided into general reading and advanced
reading. If you click on the links you will go to reviews in a
new window, which in turn will link to Amazon if you like the
look of any of them (both com and co.uk)
General Reading
Zoë
Oldenburg, Massacre at Montsegur: a history of the Albigensian
Crusade
Malcolm
Barber, The Cathars in The Languedoc
Malcolm Lambert, The Cathars
Stephen O'Shea, The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life
and Death of the Medieval Cathar
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: village Occitan, 1294-1324
Jonathan Sumption, The Albigensian Crusade
René Weis, The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last
Cathars, 1290-1329
Michael Costen, The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade
Marcus
Cowper, Cathar Castles, Fortresses of the albigensian Crusade
1209-1300
Scholarly Texts on the Cathars
William
of Tudela and an Anonymous Successor (J. Shirley, translator,)
The Song of the Cathar Wars
Peter des Vaux de Cerney (English translation by W.A. & M.D.
Sibly) The History of the Albigensian Crusade
William of Puylaurens (English translation by WA Sibly and MD
Sibly), The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens
Walter L Wakefield and Austin P Evans, Heresies of the High
Middle Ages
H J Warner, Albigensian Heresy (2 vols)
Steven Runciman, The Medieval Manichee, A Study in the Christian
Dualist Heresy
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