Cathar or Catholic? Profiling Identity Through Polemics – 4 November 2021, International Conference, Zoom

– The Second International Conference of the Leuven-Nijmegen Research Centre Polemikos will be dedicated to the harsh debates between Catholic and Cathar Christians in the Middle Ages. – We will examine the self-perception of the Cathars – those Christians branded as heretics – as a church and the changes in this perception as it developed in opposition…