"Cover"--"Half Title"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Illustrations, tables, maps" -- "Series editor's preface to the first edition" -- "Preface to the first edition" -- "Author's preface to the second edition" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Abbreviations" -- "Introduction" -- "1 The spread of Catharism" -- "Dualism" -- "The Bogomils" -- "The origins of dualism in the West" -- "2 The Cathars and Languedocian society" -- "The nobility" -- "The territorial lords" -- "The clergy" -- "Urban society" -- "Catharism and social structure" -- "3 The Cathar Church" -- "The Cathar hierarchy" -- "The consolamentum" -- "Cathar theology" -- "Moral and ethical teaching" -- "Popular Cathar belief" -- "The attraction of Catharism" -- "4 The Catholic reaction" -- "The justification for force" -- "The campaigns against heresy in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries" -- "The Albigensian Crusades" -- "5 The decline of Catharism" -- "The Treaty of Paris, 1229" -- "The inquisitors" -- "Resistance" -- "The Italian connection" -- "The operation of the Inquisition" -- "6 The last Cathars" -- "The Autier revival" -- "Heresy in Carcassonne and Albi" -- "The end of Catharism in Languedoc" -- "7 Cathars after Catharism" -- "Déodat Roché, Simone Weil, and Otto Rahn" -- "Protestantism and Catharism" -- "The Cathars and Occitan identity" -- "Further reading" -- "References" -- "Tables" -- "Maps