Warner argues that the so-called Albigensian heresy was neither local to Albi nor a single movement, but a cluster of dissenting beliefs united chiefly in opposition to Rome. He weighs claims that it descended from the Manicheans, Priscillianists, Donatists or Paulicians, explores the soil in which it grew, and describes the rites of the perfect and the credents.
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