Did growing literacy in the later medieval period foster popular
heresy, or did heresy provide a crucial stimulus to the spread of
literacy? Such questions were posed in the polemic of the time -
heretics were laici illiterati but were at the same time possessors
of dangerous books which their opponents sought to destroy, and
among them were preachers whose skills in dialectic and in exegesis
threatened orthodoxy - and have challenged the investigators of
heresy and literacy ever since. This collaborative volume, written
by a group of established scholars from Britain, continental Europe
and the United States, considers the importance of the written word
among the main pre-Lutheran popular heresies in a wide range of
European countries and explores the extent to which heretics'
familiarity with books paralleled or exceeded that of their
orthodox contemporaries.
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