EP 003 | Languedoc Before the Crusade
from The New Cathars
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Before 1209, what kind of world did the Good Christians live in? Rob looks at the Occitan language and its vernacular New Testament, a patchwork of counts, viscounts and self-governing towns, a church its own chroniclers called weak, and a religious scene where dissenters and Catholic preachers argued in public. We sort out what is established, what historians still dispute (from the Saint-Félix document to the "tolerant south" picture), and what no one can count, before reading Matthew 18 the way the Cathar ritual did, and then reading the verses before it. Sources: Council of Lombers (1165) as summarized in Encyclopaedia Iranica; Occitan Cathar Ritual (RIALTO ed.); William of Puylaurens, Chronicle (Sibly trans. summary); Bernard Gui; A. Sennis (ed.), Cathars in Question (2016); Strayer (1971) via general reference.
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