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Formation of a Persecuting Society Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250

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ISBN-10: 0631171452

ISBN-13: 9780631171454

Edition: 2001

Authors: R. I. Moore

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The Tenth to the Thirteenth 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. In this stimulating book Robert Moore 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 now appeared for the first…    
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Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

R. I. Moore is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at Newcastle University.

Preface
Introduction
Persecution: Heretics
Jews Lepers
The Common Enemy
Classification
Purity and Danger
Power and Reason
Notes
Bibliography
Index