Note to moderator: Read answerline carefully. Mark Pegg’s book about a “curse” of these people argues against using their most common name, contra the views of Peter Biller. These people’s practices are represented in a song about Joana with a vowel-filled refrain called “The Oxherd.” The shepherd Pierre Maury, who was one of these people, was documented in a microhistory compiled from the records of (*) Jacques Fournier (“zhahk foor-NEE-ay”). The Annales historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s Montaillou (“MON-tie-oo”) centers on these people, a campaign against whom supposedly produced the phrase “Kill them all; the lord will know his own.” Though they called themselves “good Christians,” these heretics were associated with Bogomils due to their apparent neo-Gnostic beliefs. For 10 points, name this Occitan religious group, the subject of a medieval crusade. ■END■
ANSWER: Cathars [or Albigenses; or Albigensians; accept bons Chrétiens or bons hommes or bon hom or bonnes femmes or good Christians or good men or good women until “good Christians” is read, but prompt afterwards; prompt on Bogomilism or word forms; prompt on heretics or non-Catholics with “what is this particular group of heretics usually called?”; prompt on Occitans with “who were members of what group?”]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European History>
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