Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages

Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages
ISBN-10
1136127089
ISBN-13
9781136127083
Category
History
Pages
212
Language
English
Published
2013-09-13
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Jeffrey Richards

Description

For the authorities in medieval Europe, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. It was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, eventually by torture. Jeffrey Richards examines the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals and uncovers a common motive for their persecution: sexual aberrance.

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