Lecture 11 continues the treatment of the life of St. Dominic, with a focus on the religious situation in southern France, the Cathars, the Albigensian heresy, the Catholic reform, Cistercian preaching missions in southern France, St. Dominic's inspiration to found an order of preachers, his involvement with the episcopal inquisition, the various medieval inquisitions, and the Albigensian crusade.Lectures in Dominican history given in 1986 to Dominican friars of the Province of St. Joseph by Fr. John Frederick Hinnebusch, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C. Lecture 11 of 25. Audio, 62 min.