Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The members of a Catharist religious sect of southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries, exterminated by the Inquisition for heresy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A collective name for the members of several anti-sacerdotal sects in the south of France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: so called from Albi, in Languedoc, where they were dominant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.
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- proper noun The inhabitants of
Albi , a city in southernFrance . - proper noun historical A
sect ofreformers opposed to thechurch ofRome in the 12th century; a branch of theCatharists , distinct from theWaldenses .
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- noun a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism
Etymologies
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The name Albigenses, given them by the Council of Tours (1163) prevailed towards the end of the twelfth century and was for a long time applied to all the heretics of the south of France.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Notwithstanding that the name Albigenses was given after the council of Lombers to the new Manichaeans, Albi was less identified with the great religious and political struggle of Southern Gaul in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries than were Castres and other neighbouring towns.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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The wars of the Count of Toulouse against the Albigenses were the tail end of that dispute.
The Atheist's Mass 2007
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Concentrated in Albi, a southern French town near Toulouse, the Cathars became known as the Albigenses, and by 1209 they were considered powerful and dangerous enough to warrant a military campaign led by Simon de Montfort to silence them.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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The wars of the Count of Toulouse against the Albigenses were the tail end of that dispute.
The Atheist's Mass 2007
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In the South of France was a sect of Christians called Albigenses
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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The Albigenses were a people of the reformed religion, who inhabited the country of Albi.
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Southern France, where its adherents were known as Albigenses, was its principal stronghold in Western
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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"The Waldenses (of whom the Albigenses are a species) were," he says, "never free from the most wretched excess of fascination;" and finally, though he allows the conduct of the judges to have been most odious, he cannot prevail on himself to acquit the parties charged by such interested accusers with horrors which should hardly have been found proved even upon the most distinct evidence.
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The first is from the 'Albigenses' of young Lenau, who has since died lunatic, we have heard, as he was not unlikely to have died with such thoughts in him.
Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856
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