I first read about the Cathars in a book recommended by my Philosophy teacher in the first year of University. The book’s title is “Love in the Western World”, by a French author, Denis de Rougemont, and it tells about the concept of chivalrous love in the western world, including classical legends such as that of Tristan and Iseult, and narrating tales of troubadour love. As the author writes about the 12th century in the Languedoc (South of France) he …
