Power & purity cathar heresy in Medieval Italy

Catharism was a popular medieval heresy based on the belief that the creation of humankind was a disaster in which angelic spirits were trapped in matter by the devil. Their only goal was to escape the body through purification. Cathars denied any value to material life, including the human body, ba...

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1. Verfasser: Lansing, Carol (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 1998
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