Amablemente, Brad Hoffstetter ha dejado un comentario en la versión pdf del artículo publicado el 9 de julio, que trató sobre los Cátaros.
Incluye un par de links a sitios 'serios' que abordan el tema, y su comentario me parece tan apropiado, que no puedo menos que incluirlo en este sitio, para que ayude a los lectores interesados en el tema.
"The term “Cathars” derives from the Greek word Katheroi and means “Pure Ones". They were a gnostic Christian sect of tolerant pacifists that arose in the 11th century, an offshoot of a small surviving European gnostic community that emigrated to the Albigensian region in the south of France.The medieval Cathar movement flourished in the 12th century A.D. throughout Europe until its virtual extermination at the hands of the Inquisition in 1245.
There are an ever increasing number of historians and other academics engaged in serious Cathar studies. Interestingly, to date, the deeper they have dug, the more they have vindicated claims that medieval Catharism represented a survival of the earliest Christian practices.
Thank you!
Brad Hoffstetter
Communications Division
Assembly of good Christians
www.cathar.net
Some credible sources:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Addita:
En la página web de Fordham, apartado 'Medieval Sourcebook: High Medieval Church Life', aparecen los siguientes enlaces sobre el tema de los Cátaros:
Cathars
- Anna Comnena: The Bogomils, c. 1110.
The Bogomils where the source of Catharism in the West. - Cathar Gospel: Book of John the Evangelist.
- Cathar Rites: Traditio: Immersion in the Perfect Community, from the Lyons Ritual.
- Cathar Rites: The Apparelhamentum, from the Lyons Ritual.
- [Tierney 63] Raynaldus: Annales: Accusations against Cathars, also available en castellano.
- Bernard Gui: Inquisitor's Manual: Accusations against Cathars, also available en castellano.
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