Catharama
J.L. Nelson: Heretics, 7 June 2001
The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars
by Stephen O’Shea.
Profile, 333 pp., £7.99, May 2001,1 86197 350 0 Show More
by Stephen O’Shea.
Profile, 333 pp., £7.99, May 2001,
“... cheese and Cathar cake. This may seem as innocuous as the 20th-century British retro-chic Raphael Samuel describes in Theatres of Memory. But search the Internet on Cathars (I looked at only a handful of the 5790 web-pages), and material that would clearly interest historians of modern and contemporary culture can only be described as depressing ... ”