HIST-281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Catharism, Manichaeism, Saint Dominic
23 Oct 2020
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In the 1210s, the battleground was in southern france. They saw christianity as a battle between the forces of light and darkness. The patriarchs of constantinople and rome agreed christianity was not a dualism. The god of evil and darkness and injustice locked in war with the light. The cathars can be compared to the manichaeans. They were a heterodox christian group that was extant. It was once popular in the roman world: dealing with cathars. Innocent iii dealt with them by sending missionaries to reconvert them. They didn"t want that and killed a missionary. He allowed for the creation of a new order for this job. The goal was to preach the heresy out of the cathars. It was to convince them that they were wrong. They failed to meet this goal: massacre at beziers. They were led by the cistercian arnaud amalric. They besieged the city of beziers and massacred the cathars.
