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Sir: In a footnote to your story, we are told that the Albigensians adopted a "strict, other worldly practice of Christianity, and were virtually exterminated by the church."

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Montaillou's heretics �spiritual heirs of the Albigensians who had been so bloodily crushed the century before�became his target.

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Let's not advertise the Albigensians as simon-pure Christians, which they were not, at least in principle.

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They were Albigensians, heretics, and their songs, their protocols of courtly love, were simply the elaborate double-talk of a theology driven underground.

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And he took for mistresses the Lady Mandetta and the Lady Giovanna, who represented the one the Albigensians, the other the Ghibellines.

From The Well of Saint Clare by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)