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Catharist

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Cath·ar  (kthär)
n. pl. Cath·a·ri (--r) or Cath·ars
A member of a Christian sect flourishing in western Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries that professed a dualistic belief emphasizing ascetic renunciation of the world and was condemned by the Church as heretical.
[French Cathare, from sing. of Medieval Latin Cathar, from Late Greek Katharoi, from pl. of Greek katharos, pure.]
Cathar adj.
Catha·rism n.
Catha·rist adj. & n.
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This includes the story of Peter Martyr, a Dominican from Verona who preached against heresy and was assassinated by Catharist heretics in 1252.
Santa Maria della Salute: Architecture and Ceremony in Baroque Venice by GISOLFI, DIANA / Renaissance Quarterly
Italian Cathars and their sixteenth-century heretical cousins do not have much in common, despite Carol Lansing's rather implausible concluding suggestion that Catharist ideas of human perfection somehow fed into Renaissance humanism.
Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy by Mayer, Thomas F. / Renaissance Quarterly
Italian Cathars and their sixteenth-century heretical cousins do not have much in common, despite Carol Lansing's rather implausible concluding suggestion that Catharist ideas of human perfection somehow fed into Renaissance humanism.
Dai paesi bassi all'Italia. "Il sommario della Sacra scrittura", un ... by Mayer, Thomas F. / Renaissance Quarterly
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