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A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries) (2022)
Book Chapter
Taylor, C. (2022). A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries). In M. Benedetti, & E. Cameron (Eds.), A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages (35-77). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004420410_004

The expression above was attributed to Pérégrine Gasc, an inquisitorial deponent of Moissac, a town in the diocese of Cahors and the medieval county of Quercy, in 1244. She is referring to her experience of Waldensians in the town of Toulouse and... Read More about A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries).

The general court of the Agenais revisited: an innovation of the Albigensian Crusade (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor, C. (2018). The general court of the Agenais revisited: an innovation of the Albigensian Crusade. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 62, 61-82. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.NMS.5.116550

The general court of the Agenais is an example of the diverse forms of semi-autonomous regional assemblies which emerged in the high-medieval Languedoc. They were identified and examined most convincingly by Thomas Bisson. However, the origins of the... Read More about The general court of the Agenais revisited: an innovation of the Albigensian Crusade.

‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor, C. (2018). ‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade. French History, 32(3), 327-349. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cry065

This paper contributes new evidence and a new perspective to the study of the religious heresy known as Waldensianism in the high-medieval Languedoc, and its relationship to both orthodox authority and the ‘Cathar’ heresy. Although they were outlawed... Read More about ‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade.

‘Looking for the ‘good men’ in Languedoc’: an alternative to Cathars?' (2016)
Book Chapter
Taylor, C. (2016). ‘Looking for the ‘good men’ in Languedoc’: an alternative to Cathars?'. In A. Sennis (Ed.), Cathars in Question, 242-257. Boydell & Brewer

This article argues that the title 'Good Men and Women' sometimes attributed to 'heretics' in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is no less accurate or uncontroversial than the label 'Cathar'. This is because it is too widely app... Read More about ‘Looking for the ‘good men’ in Languedoc’: an alternative to Cathars?'.

To the Castle! A comparison of two audio guides to enable public discovery of historical events (2013)
Journal Article
Fitzgerald, E., Taylor, C., & Craven, M. P. (2013). To the Castle! A comparison of two audio guides to enable public discovery of historical events. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 17(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-012-0624-0

This paper describes and compares two audio guides used to inform the general public about local historical events, specifically the 1831 Reform Riot as it happened in and around Nottingham in the UK. One audio guide consisted of a guided walk, organ... Read More about To the Castle! A comparison of two audio guides to enable public discovery of historical events.