Charles Maturin, The Albigenses

Christina Morin (University of Limerick)

Ed. by Anne Markey, Dublin City University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.4: Irish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Paul Delaney (Trinity College Dublin), Anne Markey (Dublin City University), Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin), Sinéad Sturgeon (Queen's University Belfast)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1824

Places

Ireland, Republic of (Eire) (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Originally intended as the first book of a trilogy of historical romances meant to explore the “feelings and manners” of Europeans in ancient, middle, and modern times, Charles Robert Maturin’s sixth and final novel, The Albigenses; A Romance (1824), begins in the autumn of 1216, after the first crusade against the Albigensian heretics (Maturin 1:vii). Members of the larger Cathar heresy that emerged in the Languedoc region of modern-day France in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Albigenses believed that a “bad” god created all things physical, and that a “good” god ruled over the spiritual. The objective of human life, according to the Albigenses, was to renounce the evils of this world and thereby attain …

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Citation: Morin, Christina. "The Albigenses". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 August 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1621, accessed 18 May 2024.]

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