Stephen O’Shea tells the story of the Cathar movement, which arose in Languedoc during the 12th century and whose adherents held the heretical belief that the world was created by a force of darkness. He explains how the popularity of their ideas brought the Cathars into conflict with both Church and monarchy, resulting in their persecution in the brutal Albigensian Crusade and at the hands of the newly established Inquisition.
Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France. Their subversive beliefs brought down on them the wrath of Popes and monarchs and provoked a brutal 'Crusade' against them. The final defeat of the Cathars was horrific with mass burnings of men, women and children in the village of Montaillou in the Pyrenees.
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