Were the Cathars real?

[Syt]

The Cathar are a species of cat people in Star Wars, so: no. They're fictional.

Are you sure you're not confusing them with the Caitians, the Star Trek cat people?

Yes: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cathar

And if you played KotOR, you might remember Juhani, a Cathar: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Juhani
(They were also available as player species in SWTOR.)

[Barrister]

The Cathar are a species of cat people in Star Wars, so: no. They're fictional.

Are you sure you're not confusing them with the Caitians, the Star Trek cat people?

Yes: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cathar

And if you played KotOR, you might remember Juhani, a Cathar: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Juhani
(They were also available as player species in SWTOR.)

I should have put a smilie - I was trying to make a joke about how "cat-people" are such a common sci-fi trope.

[The Brain]

Traveller Aslan frown on your shenanigans.

[Syt]

The Cathar are a species of cat people in Star Wars, so: no. They're fictional.

Are you sure you're not confusing them with the Caitians, the Star Trek cat people?

Yes: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cathar

And if you played KotOR, you might remember Juhani, a Cathar: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Juhani
(They were also available as player species in SWTOR.)

I should have put a smilie - I was trying to make a joke about how "cat-people" are such a common sci-fi trope.

 

[Barrister]

Traveller Aslan frown on your shenanigans.

Traveller



But of course Traveller had not only the cat-like Aslan, but the Vargr who were literally genetically engineered dogs.

I still think they made up for it by having the truly alien Hivers.

[The Minsky Moment]

I'm familiar with the theory from Mark Gregory Pegg's book.  The outlines have been addressed in other posts above including sheilbh and PDH.  That Occitanian Christianity was just one of many manifestations of regional Christianities with their own little quirks and regional traditions.  Encountering these unfamiliar though harmless practices, university educated churchmen from the outside used wildly anachronistic terminology and heresiological frameworks from reading late classical and early medieval authors.  Overlay that with the complex political and social interaction between the expanding Capetian state and the unruly south that provided a motivation for "finding" an hidden nest of ancient heresy..

[Tonitrus]

The Cathar are a species of cat people in Star Wars, so: no. They're fictional.

Are you sure you're not confusing them with the Caitians, the Star Trek cat people?

Yes: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cathar

And if you played KotOR, you might remember Juhani, a Cathar: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Juhani
(They were also available as player species in SWTOR.)

I should have put a smilie - I was trying to make a joke about how "cat-people" are such a common sci-fi trope.

 

The best cat-aliens are, of course, the Kilrathi.

[Legbiter]

Tom Holland argued quite persuasively in his last book that the Cathars as a deep and ancient heresy did not exist, instead they were deplorable gammons who didn't get with the revolutionary change sweeping Rome. Add local political rivalries and the promise of loot (Russian soldiers and washing machines inevitably springs to mind) and voila, that's the Albigensian Crusade.  

[viper37]

The best cat-aliens are, of course, the Kilrathi.

Not the movie version, though.

[jimmy olsen]

Tom Holland argued quite persuasively in his last book that the Cathars as a deep and ancient heresy did not exist, instead they were deplorable gammons who didn't get with the revolutionary change sweeping Rome. Add local political rivalries and the promise of loot (Russian soldiers and washing machines inevitably springs to mind) and voila, that's the Albigensian Crusade.  

What the fuck would a Spiderman actor know about the subject? 

[garbon]

Tom Holland argued quite persuasively in his last book that the Cathars as a deep and ancient heresy did not exist, instead they were deplorable gammons who didn't get with the revolutionary change sweeping Rome. Add local political rivalries and the promise of loot (Russian soldiers and washing machines inevitably springs to mind) and voila, that's the Albigensian Crusade.  

What the fuck would a Spiderman actor know about the subject? 

I also think I'd taken theorizing with a grain of salt from that author.

[Syt]

Different Tom Holland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Holland_(author)

[Oexmelin]

I'm familiar with the theory from Mark Gregory Pegg's book.  The outlines have been addressed in other posts above including sheilbh and PDH.  That Occitanian Christianity was just one of many manifestations of regional Christianities with their own little quirks and regional traditions.  Encountering these unfamiliar though harmless practices, university educated churchmen from the outside used wildly anachronistic terminology and heresiological frameworks from reading late classical and early medieval authors.  Overlay that with the complex political and social interaction between the expanding Capetian state and the unruly south that provided a motivation for "finding" an hidden nest of ancient heresy..

What did you think of the book?

[garbon]

Different Tom Holland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Holland_(author)

Despite my poorly constructed sentence, I was trying to refer to the author not the actor.

[The Minsky Moment]

What did you think of the book?

It's been a while.  What I recall is that he used a lot of direct quotations to give a sense of narrative drive.  It made the book more readable, but I kept thinking about the selection and reliability of sources.  The books addressed that in part, especially with regard to the inquisitorial records, but not entirely. 

It was interesting to read because I had approached the book with the vague prior understanding of unreconstructed gnostics scattered about the Occitan countryside and Pegg made the forceful case against that understanding.