Okay. I finally read this post and I see that you've run into the same god/s-forsaken tome I have stuffed on a shelf or lost to the abyssmal depths of a closet somewhere in my home. I picked it up to aid me in last semester's paper chase when I discovered that the author was a bleeding crackpot! I mean, suggesting that the Cathars had no formal "church" structure wasn't too bad. But the rest of that crap about Albi not being a cathar stronghold or anti-semitism being in existence only after the Albigensian Crusade is a load akin to claiming that Boris the Bulgar didn't lose to the Byzantines in 864. Or, if you prefer, claiming that racism in America didn't exist until after the Civil War. It's ludicrous. I think that Oxford Press should recall all known copies and apologize to the author's sources (assuming he bothered to use secondaries). Clearly this one was about making money. Sheesh!