Catharism, a Medieval Utopian Manifestation

Although the current historiographic trend is to deny the status of utopia to every social movement and to all literary or artistic creation prior to the work of Thomas More (1516), the present work defends its pertinence in relation to the Middle Ages, and proposes to exemplify it with a socioreligious phenomenon of the period between the 12th and 14th Centuries, the Cathar heresy.

Keywords:
Middle Ages; utopia; heresy; Catharism