The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after
the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the
motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war:
what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How
might such beliefs have arisen? And why were they such a threat? In
western Europe at AD 1000 heresy had barely been heard of. Yet
within a few generations accusations had become commonplace and
institutions were being set up to identify and suppress beliefs and
practices seen as departures from true religion. Popular accounts
of events, most notably of the Albigensian Crusade led by Europe
against itself, have assumed the threats posed by the heretical
movements were only too real. Some scholars by contrast have tried
to show that reports of heresy were exaggerated or even fabricated:
but if they are correct why was the war on heresy launched at all?
And why was it conducted with such pitiless ferocity? To find the
answers to these and other questions R. I. Moore returns to the
evidence of the time. His investigation forms the basis for an
account as profound as it is startlingly original.
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