Religious and political identity in medieval Europe: purity of faith and heresy
Emilio Mitre
This article provides a diachronic and overall view to analyze the creation of an 
identity in medieval Europe expressed religious political terms created 
from contrasting internal cohesion confronted towards external otherness. 
This imposed conceptual trajectory, begun disquisition between pontifical 
theocracy imperial Caesorapapism following through acceptance 
the plurality feudal monarchies segregating reaction late Middle 
Ages, focused on purity faith isolating groups beliefs that could stain 
society. The link divine guidance people facilitated 
discourse at end Ages integrated influence messianism-millenarianism