--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If such a claim *was* made in this show, I'd love to > see documentation of it.
http://www.pbs.org/inquisition/bibliography.html Above is the bibliography for the whole series -- just this one segment focused on the Cathars. > Interest- > ingly, most of the valuable source material on the > Cathars comes from the records of the Inquistion itself. > You would expect that if there were any allegations such > as the ones you make above, that's where they would > appear. But they don't. This new PBS series read "transcripts" from the inquisition that detailed the affairs of one or several Cathar priests. Where PBS gots its material, I am not sure, but its probably in the bibliography. The veracity of catholic inquisitors recording some diologue of an acused priest and his inquisitors is another story. >The monks of the Inquisition > may have been fanatics and madmen, but they *were* monks, > and tended to write down *exactly* what the heretics > they were trying said in their trials. OK. > That's why these > trial records are so valuable when trying to reconstruct > an era from which many of the other records were destroyed. > > In other words, I'm cutting you a break by assuming that > in your statement above about priests you are talking > about are the *Catholic* priests of the day, not the Cathar > priests. I am simply reporting my viewing of a show on PBS that I thought you might have some interst in. Why you feel you need to cut me a break for doing do is "unfathomable".
