Name for the dualist heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; derived from the city of Albi in southern France, one of their centres of influence; also called Cathars. (Lynch, Joseph H. The Medieval Church: A Brief History, 359) Related terms: Cathars

religious movement that flourished in Southern France in the 13th century; the pope declared it heretic and the feudal nobility of Northern France organised a bloody crusade against it (also known as Cathars).

a group of people who rejected not only the hierarchical organization and the sacraments of the church, but the Roman church itself. (p. 369)