Malcolm Lambert was Reader in Medieval History at the University of Bristol. This 1998 Blackwell monograph is the first full-length English synthesis of Catharism, tracing the movement from its Rhineland and Balkan antecedents through its flowering in Languedoc and northern Italy to its destruction by crusade and inquisition. It draws on inquisitorial registers, chronicles and polemical sources, and its limit is the one the whole field shares: almost everything known about Cathar belief and organisation survives only through documents written by the movement's opponents.
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AuthorMalcolm Lambert
PublisherBlackwell
Publication Year1998
Source TypeMonograph
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Reliability Tier1
Malcolm Lambert's single-author synthesis, the first comprehensive English-language account of Catharism spanning its whole history; the standard general reference cited across the field. Connections
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This source names Catharism directly: "first full-length English synthesis of Catharism, tracing the movement from its Rhineland and Balkan antecedents through its flowering in Languedoc and northern Italy to its destruction by crusade..."
Source The Cathars (Lambert, Blackwell, 1998)Malcolm Lambert
This source names Italy directly: "flowering in Languedoc and northern Italy to its destruction by crusade and inquisition."
Source The Cathars (Lambert, Blackwell, 1998)Malcolm Lambert
Claims Backed By This Source (24 claims)
This source backs 24 claims across the atlas. As facts: 16 well-attested. As cited relationships: 7 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Religions, 16 claims: 10 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
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