http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Catharism Posts tagged with 'Catharism' at MetaFilter. Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:06:42 -0800 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:06:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/83479/The%2DBeziers%2DMassacre <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Amalricus">"Kill them all. For God knows His own."</a> Today is the 800th anniversary of the massacre of the inhabitants of the town of Beziers in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languedoc">Languedoc</a>, in the south of France, known by the Romans as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallia_Narbonensis">Gallia Narbonensis.</a> Beziers was the first town to be sacked in the <a href="http://www.languedoc-france.info/1206_crusade.htm">Albigensian </a> <a href="http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/albigens.htm">Crusades</a> to extirpate the Christian heresy of <a href="http://www.cathar.info/1204_origins.htm">Catharism</a>, which flourished in Languedoc. The Albigensian Crusades represented the initial application in Europe of religious warfare sanctioned by the resurgent medieval Papacy, and led directly to the institution of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition">Inquisition</a> and rise of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Order">Dominican Order</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.83479 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:06:42 -0800 Catharism Crusades France Inquisition religion rdone