Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Prologue: Béziers -- 1: Heresy and Orthodoxy -- Dualism -- The Good Religion -- The World, the Flesh and the Devil -- Essenes, Gnostics and the First Christians -- The Council of Nicaea -- Manichaeism and other Dualist Heresies -- The Bogomils -- 2: The Foxes in the Vineyard of the Lord -- The First Western Heretics -- Church Reforms -- The First Cathars -- The Living Icons -- The Consolamentum -- The Spread of Catharism -- The Council of St Félix -- Catharism in Italy -- 3: The Albigensian Crusade -- The Languedoc at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century -- Innocent III -- An Enterprise of Peace and Faith -- The Albigensian Crusade -- Simon de Montfort -- The Fourth Lateran Council -- The Siege of Toulouse -- De Montfort's Impact on Catharism -- The Changing of the Guard -- The Peace of Paris -- 4: The Inquisition -- The First Inquisitors -- The Inquisition in the Languedoc -- The Trencavel and St Gilles Revolts -- The Fall of Montségur -- The Inquisition after Montségur -- The Fall of Quéribus -- 5: The Autier Revival -- Peter Autier -- The Endura -- Geoffrey d'Ablis and Bernard Gui -- The Last Perfect -- Montaillou -- 6: Italy and Bosnia -- Thirteenth-Century Italian Catharism -- Cathar Writings -- The Decline of Italian Catharism -- The Last Cathars -- The Enigma of the Bosnian Church -- 7: The Cathar Treasure -- The Cathars and the Holy Grail -- The Troubadours and the Knights Templar -- Modern Cathars -- The Persecuting Society -- Endnotes -- Appendix I: Chronology -- Appendix II: An Heretical Lexicon -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index.