Description: A fresh examination of the Cathar heresy, using the records of inquisitorial tribunals to bring out new details of life at the time.
Review Quotes: This reviewer heartily agrees with Sparks's call to discard the artificial divide, perpetuated by modern historians, between 'sacred and profane, religious and secular, ' as well as between 'good men' and 'believers, ' in favor of a more modulated and contextualized consideration of religion as lived, practiced, and believed in an individual, familial, and social context.-- "SPECULUM"