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Interview With Fostine Davis, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Interview With Fostine Davis, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History collection
Fostine Davis interviewed by Esther Mallard, November 7, 1994. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!
Death In Catharism And Its Threat To The Church, Evan Leahy
Death In Catharism And Its Threat To The Church, Evan Leahy
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History
Catharism was one of the most influential and consequential movements in southern France and northern Italy during the medieval period. This article traces the history and main ideas of Catharism, arguing that the Cathar beliefs, rituals, and conceptions of death were the most threatening aspect of the sect to the orthodox Catholic church and is what inevitably led to the majority of their followers being systematically executed.