The war against heresy in medieval Europe
R. I. Moore
Both the level of clerical anxiety about popular heresy in century or so after 1140 and breadth vigour measures adopted to suppress it, initially Languedoc, were disproportionate its extent, coherence support. This article therefore seeks an alternative explanation for launching ‘war against heresy’ thirteenth-century Europe, finds it primarily developing self-consciousness new administrative elite produced by demographic cultural transformation Europe eleventh century.
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