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The Inquisition Record of Jacques Fournier - http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty_and_staff/course_detail.jsp?id=4268
English translations by Nancy Stork of Inquisition records of the Bishop of Pamiers 1318-1325, including examinations of suspected Cathars. |
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A Cathar Gospel - http://www.languedoc-france.info/121203_john.htm
Annotated English translation of the Book of John the Evangelist, a Bogomil document used by medieval Italian Cathars and seized by the Inquisition. |
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Fourth Lateran Council, 1215: Canon 3 on Heresy - http://www.languedoc-france.info/121201_4lateran1215.htm
Anotated English translation of Canon 3 of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215, on heresy, including the Cathar heresy. |
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An English Translation of an Extract from the Chronicle of Ralph, Abbot of Coggershall - http://www.languedoc-france.info/121206_coggershall.htm
Anotated English translation of the abbot's account of the discovery of Cathars in Rheims in the twelfth century. |
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An English translation of Bernard Gui, Inquisitors Manual, on the Cathars - http://www.languedoc-france.info/121207_guicathars.htm
Anotated English translation of An Extract from Bernard Gui's fourteenth century Inquisitorial Technique, on the Albigensians (Cathars) |
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Caesarius of Heisterbach on Medieval Heresies - http://www.languedoc-france.info/121211_heisterbach.htm
Annotated English translation of Caesarius of Heisterbach: Medieval Heresies (Dialogue on Miracles V: 20-22) including the words allegedly spoken by Arnaud Amoury: "Kill them all for the Lord knoweth them that are His" |
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The Siege of Toulouse in 1217-18, according to The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens - http://www.languedoc-france.info/121208_toulouse.htm
anotated English translation The Siege of Toulouse in 1217-18, according to The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens |
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The Cathar Ceremony of the Consolamentum - http://www.languedoc-france.info/121204_lyons_consolamentum.htm
English translation of the Cosolamentum, the Cathar rite by which a "believer" became a member of the "Elect". Text taken from the Lyons Ritual and translated by Nancy Stork. |
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On the Accusations against the Albigensians - http://www.languedoc-france.info/121202_raynaldus.htm
An account from an early thirteenth century Latin chronicle by the Cistercian monk Raynaldus writing against the Albigensians, or Cathars. English translation by Nancy Stork. |
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The Cathar Ceremony of the Apparelhamentum - http://www.languedoc-france.info/121204_lyons_apparelhamentum.htm
English translation of the Cathar Rite of the Apparelhamentum (General Confession) from the Lyons Ritual. |