fuller.tony a écrit : > And of course the Cathares were NOT the forerunners of Protestantisme or the > Eglise Reformee - their beliefs were so dissimilar to those of the > Protestantes as to make them almost a religion/culte on their own which is > of course, why the Catholic north of the country and Papal interests > attacked them. > There were other reasons which could be summed up as Parisian imperialism or just greed but I really don't think this is a subject to be discussed at length on this list. As Tony says the Cathares have nothing to do with the Huguenots, they are certainly not precursors in any way. If we let them in, we have to deal with the Lollards, various minor heresies such as Eon de l'Etoile and his mates, in fact anybody at all who fell foul of Rome for whatever reason. Why not witchcraft, while we're at it ? My personal view is that anything pre-Luther is off-topic (except of course the ancestors of Huguenot families). HTH Peter