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The War on Heresy - Faith and Power in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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The War on Heresy - Faith and Power in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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The great 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. Fears of
heresy inspired passions that moulded European society for the rest
of the middle ages and resulted in a series of persecutions that
left an indelible mark on its history and culture. 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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