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ALBIAN (Fr. Albien, from See also:Alba = See also:Aube in See also:France)  , in See also:geology the See also:term proposed in 1842 by A. d'See also:Orbigny for that See also:stage of the Cretaceous See also:System which comes above the See also:Aptian and below the Cenomanian (See also:Pal . See also:France . Cret. ii.) . The precise limits of this stage are placed somewhat differently by See also:English and See also:continental geologists . In See also:England it is usual to regard the See also:Albian stage as See also:equivalent to the Upper See also:Greensand plus See also:Gault, that is, to the " Selbornian " of See also:Jukes-See also:Browne . But A. de See also:Lapparent would See also:place most of the Upper Greensand in the Cenomanian . The English practice is to commence the upper Cretaceous with the Albian; on the other See also:hand, this stage closes the See also:lower Cretaceous according to continental usage . It is necessary therefore, when using the term Albian, to See also:bear these See also:differences in mind, and to ascertain the exact position of the strata by reference to the zonal fossils . These are, in descending See also:order, Pecten as per and Cardiaster fossarius, Schloenbachia rostrata, Hoplites lautus and H. interruptus, Douvilleiceras mammillatum . In addition to the formations mentioned, above, the following representatives of the Albian stage are worthy of See also:notice: the gaize and phosphatic beds of See also:Argonne and See also:Bray in France;' the Flammenmergel of See also:North See also:Germany; the-lignites of Utrillas in See also:Spain; the Upper Sandstones of See also:Nubia, and the Fredericksburg beds of North See also:America . See GAULT, GREENSAND, and CRETACEOUS . (J .

A . H.) ALBIGENSES, the usual designation of the heretics—and more especially the Catharist heretics—of the See also:

south of France in the 12th and 13th centuries . This name appears to have been given to them at the end of the 12th See also:century, and was used in 1181 by the chronicler See also:Geoffroy de Vigeois . The designation is hardly exact, for the heretical centre was at See also:Toulouse and in the neighbouring districts rather than at See also:Albi (the See also:ancient Albiga) . The See also:heresy, which had, penetrated into these regions probably by See also:trade routes, came originally from eastern See also:Europe . The name of Bulgarians (Bougres) was often applied to the Albigenses,, and they always kept up intercourse with the Bogomil sectaries of See also:Thrace . Their dualist doctrines, as described by controversialists, See also:present numerous resemblances to those of the See also:Bogomils, and still more to those of the See also:Paulicians, with whom they are sometimes connected . It is exceedingly difficult, how-ever, to See also:form any very precise See also:idea of the Albigensian doctrines, as our knowledge of them is derived from their opponents, and the very rare texts emanating from the Albigenses which have come down to us (e.g. the Rituel cathare de See also:Lyon and the Nouveau; Testament en provencal) contain very inadequate See also:information, concerning their metaphysical principles and moral practice . What is certain is that, above all, they formed an See also:anti-sacerdotal party in permanent opposition to the See also:Roman See also:church, and raised. a continued protest against the corruption of t' See also:clergy of their See also:time . The Albigensian theologians and ascetics, the Cathari or perfecti, known in the south of France as bons hommes or bons chretiens, were few in number; the See also:mass of believers (credentes) were perhaps not initiated into the Catharist See also:doctrine; at all events, they were See also:free from all moral See also:prohibition and all religious See also:obligation, on See also:condition that they promised by an See also:act,called. convenenza to become ." hereticized " by receiving the consolamentum, the See also:baptism of the Spirit, before their See also:death or even, in extremis . The first Catharist heretics appeared in See also:Limousin between 1012 and 1020 . Several were discovered and put to death at Toulouse in 1022; and the See also:synod of Charroux (dep. of See also:Vienne) in ro28, and that of Toulouse in ro56, condemned the growing See also:sect .

The preachers Raoul Ardent in Iior and See also:

Robert of Arbrissel in 1114 were summoned to the districts of the See also:Agenais and, the Toulousain to combat the heretical propaganda . But, protected by See also:William IX., See also:duke of See also:Aquitaine, and soon by a See also:great See also:part of the See also:southern See also:nobility, the heretics gained, ground in the south, and in 1119 the See also:council of Toulouse in vain ordered the See also:secular, See also:powers to assist the ecclesiastical authority in quelling the heresy . The See also:people were attached, to the bons hommes, whose See also:asceticism imposed upon the masses, and the ,anti-sacerdotal See also:preaching of See also:Peter of Bruys and See also:Henry of See also:Lausanne in See also:Perigord, . See also:Languedoc and See also:Provence, only facilitated the progress of Catharism in those regions . In 1147 See also:Pope See also:Eugenius III. sent the See also:legate Alberic of See also:Ostia and St See also:Bernard to the affected See also:district . The few isolated successes of the See also:abbot of See also:Clairvaux could not obscure the real results of this See also:mission, and the See also:meeting at Lombers in '165 of a synod, where See also:Catholic; priests. had to submit to a discussion with Catharist doctors, well shows the See also:power of the sect in the south of France at that See also:period . Moreover,, two years afterwards a Catharist synod, in which heretics , from Languedoc, See also:Bulgaria and See also:Italy took part, was held at St See also:Felix de Caraman, near Toulouse, and their deliberations were undisturbed, The See also:missions of See also:Cardinal Peter (of St Chrysogonus);; formerly See also:bishop of See also:Meaux, to Toulouse and the Toulousain in I 178, and of Henry, cardinal-bishop of Albano (formerly abbot of Clairvaux), in 118o–' 181, obtained merely momentary successes . Henry of Albano attempted an armed expedition against the stronghold of heretics at See also:Lavaur and against See also:Raymond See also:Roger See also:viscount of See also:Beziers, their acknowledged See also:protector . The taking of Lavaur and . the submission of Raymond Roger in no way arrested the progressof the heresy . The persistent decisions of the See also:councils against the heretics at this period—in particular, those of the council of See also:Tours (1163) and of the See also:oecumenical Lateran council (1179)—had scarcely more effect . But on ascending the papal See also:throne, See also:Innocent III. resolved to suppress the Albigenses . At first he tried pacific See also:conversion, and in 1198 and 1199 sent into the affected regions two Cistercian monks, See also:Regnier and See also:Guy, and in 1203 two monks of Fontfroide, Peter of See also:Castelnau and Raoul (See also:Ralph), with whom in 1204 he even associated the Cistercian abbot, See also:Arnaud (See also:Arnold) .

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They had to contend not only with the heretics, the nobles who protected them, and the people who listened to them and venerated them, but also with the bishops of the district, who rejected the extraordinary authority which the pope had conferred upon his legates, the monks . In 1204 Innocent III. suspended the authority of the bishops of the south of France . Peter of Castelnau retaliated by excommunicating Raymond VI., See also:

count of Toulouse, as an See also:abettor of heresy (1207), and kindled in the nobles of the south that animosity of which he was the first victim (1209) . As soon as he heard of the See also:murder of Peter of Castelnau, the pope ordered the See also:Cistercians to preach the crusade against the Albigenses . This implacable See also:war, which threw the whole of the nobility of the north of France against that of the south, and destroyed the brilliant Provencal See also:civilization, ended, politically, in the treaty of See also:Paris (1229), by which the See also:king of France dispossessed the See also:house of Toulouse of the greater part of its fiefs, and that of Beziers of the whole of its fiefs . The See also:independence of the princes of the south was at an end, but, so far as the heresy was concerned, Albigensianism was not extinguished, in spite of the wholesale massacres of heretics during the war . Raymond VII. of Toulouse and the count of See also:Foix gave See also:asylum to the " faidits " (proscribed), and the people were averse from handing over the bons hommes . The See also:Inquisition, however, operating unremittingly in the south at Toulouse, Albi, See also:Carcassonne and other towns during the whole of the 13th century and a great part of the 14th, succeeded in crushing the heresy . There were indeed some outbursts of See also:rebellion, some fomented by the nobles of Languedoc (124o-1242), and others emanating from the people of the towns, who were embittered by confiscations and religious persecutions (e.g. at See also:Narbonne in 1234 and Toulouse in 1235), but the repressive See also:measures were terrible . In 1245 the royal See also:officers assisting the Inquisition seized the heretical citadel of Montsegur, and 200 Cathari were burned in one See also:day . Moreover, the church decreed severe chastisement against all laymen suspected of sympathy with the heretics (council of Narbonne, 1235; See also:Bull Ad extirpanda, 1252) . Hunted down by the Inquisition and quickly abandoned by the nobles of the district, the Albigenses became more and more scattered, hiding in the forests and mountains, and only meeting surreptitiously .

There were some recrudescences of heresy, such as that produced by the preaching (1298-1309) of the Catharist See also:

minister, See also:Pierre Authier; the people, too, made some attempts to throw off the yoke of the Inquisition and the See also:French,' and insurrections See also:broke out under the leadership of Bernard of Foix, Aimery of Narbonne, and, especially, Bernard Delicieux at the beginning of the 14th century . But at this point vast inquests were set on See also:foot by the Inquisition, which terrorized the district . Precise indications of these are found in the registers of the Inquisitors, Bernard of Caux, See also:Jean de St Pierre, Geoffroy d'Ablis, and others . The sect, moreover, was exhausted and could find no more adepts in a district which, by See also:fair means or foul, had arrived at a See also:state of See also:peace and See also:political and religious unity . After 1330 the records of the Inquisition contain but few proceedings against Catharists . (See also under See also:CATHARS.) ' These they often confounded, and a heretic is described as saying: " Clergy and French, they are one and the same thing."of the Inquisition of Carcassonne, published by Ph. See also:van See also:Limborch at the end of his Historia Inquisitions (See also:Amsterdam, 1692); other registers of the Inquisition analysed at length by Ch . See also:Molinier, op. cit., some published in vol. ii. of the Documents pour l'histoire de ?Inquisition (Paris, 1900), by C . Douais; numerous texts concerning the last days of Albigensianism, collected by M . Vidal, " See also:Les derniers ministres albigeeis,' in Rev. de quest. histor . (1906) . See also the Rituel cathare, ed. by See also:Cunitz (See also:Jena, 1852) ; the Nouveau Testament en Provencal, ed. by Cledat (Paris, 1887) ; and the very curious Debat d' Yzarn et de Sicart de Figueiras, ed. by P . See also:Meyer (188o) .

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ethics of the Catharists, see Jean See also:Guiraud, Questions d'histoire et d'archeologie chretienne (Paris, 1906) ; and P . Alphandery, Les idees morales chez les heterodoxes latins au debut du XIIIe siecle (Paris, 1903) . (P .

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