The Formation of a Persecuting Society
R. I. Moore(Author)
Blackwell Publishers
Published on 23. July 1987
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-631-13746-7 (ISBN)
Description
The 10th to the 13th centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the inquisition; expropriation and mass murder of Jews; the foundation of leper hospitals in large numbers and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy. These have traditionally been seen as distinct and separate developments, and explained in terms of the problems which their victims presented to medieval society. This book argues that the coincidences in the treatment of these and other minority groups cannot be explained independently, and that all are part of a pattern of persecution which new appeared for the first time to make Europe become, as it has remained, a persecuting society.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-13746-7 (9780631137467)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Persecution - heretics, Jews, lepers, the common enemy; classification; purity and danger; power and reason.