Archive for the tag 'Religion'

Synopsis (from book cover):
Did you know that the word “Cathar” has been used only since the 19th century in reference to the 13th century supporters of a faith and a religious practice which the Catholic papacy considered to be dangerously heretical?  Did you know that almost everything that we know about the Cathars comes from interrogations carried out by [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 28th 2013

I invite you to join me at Vision & Verb where I talk about the Museum of Torture that I visited whilst I was in Carcassonne.  It displayed the instruments of torture that were used in the middle ages.  The museum focused in detail on the Albigensian crusades and the Inquisition and left visitors with [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 8th 2012