All Outputs (2)

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.