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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Heresy and Fornication | |
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| Three Racy Stories | |
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| The Heresy in the Swabian Ries | |
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| Heresy and Fornication: a Topos of the Thirteenth Century | |
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| Adamites and Luciferans in the Fourteenth Century | |
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| Beghards and Beguines | |
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| Origins and Sources of Hostility | |
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| The Heresy of Lay Piety | |
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| Conrad of Megenberg and John Wasmod of Homburg | |
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| The Condemnation | |
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| The Thirteenth Century | |
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| The German Decrees | |
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| Marguerite Porete | |
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| The Council of Vienne | |
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| The Inquisition in Strassburg | |
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| The Campaign of John of Zurich | |
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| The Second Wave of Persecutions | |
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| The Case of John Malkaw | |
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| The Third Wave of Persecutions | |
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| The Inquisition in the East | |
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| John and Albert of Brunn | |
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| The Beguines of Schweidnitz | |
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| The Hussite Problem | |
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| The Inquisition in the West | |
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| Hermann Kuchener and Constantine of Erfurt | |
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| The Revival of the Papal Inquisition | |
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| The Campaign of Walter Kerlinger: John Hartmann and the Beguines of Thuringia | |
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| Conrad Kannler | |
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| The Campaigns of Martin of Prague, Peter Zwicker, and Eylard Schoenveld | |
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| Nicholas of Basel and the Campaign of John Mulberg | |
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| The "Men of Intelligence" | |
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| The Fifteenth Century | |
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| The Polemics of Gerson | |
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| The Era of the Council of Basel | |
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| Hans Becker | |
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| The Predicament of the Mystics | |
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| Meister Eckhart | |
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| Eckhart's Orthodox Followers | |
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| Ruysbroeck | |
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| Groote and the Brethren of the Common Life | |
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| The Literature of the Free Spirit | |
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| The Mirror of Simple Souls | |
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| The Pseudo-Eckhart Literature | |
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| De onbekende leek and Schwester Katrei | |
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| The Rhineland libelli and The Book of Spiritual Poverty | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Place of the Heresy of the Free Spirit in Social and Cultural History | |
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| Who were the Free Spirits? | |
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| Motivation | |
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| "The Pursuit of the Millennium" or "Beyond Good and Evil"? | |
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| The Lay Spirit and the Dignity of Man | |
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| Ultimate Failure | |
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| List of Manuscripts | |
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| Index | |