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Heresy And Literacy

  • Paperback
  • 340 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.8 x 2 cm

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For students and scholars of medieval history

Examines the relationship between heresy and literacy

You will gain insights into historical debates on faith

This scholarly work explores the link between literacy and heresy in the medieval period.

Did growing literacy in the later medieval period foster popular heresy, or did heresy provide a crucial stimulus to the spread of literacy? Such questions were posed in the polemic of the time - heretics were laici illiterati but were at the same time possessors of dangerous books which their opponents sought to destroy, and among them were preachers whose skills in dialectic and in exegesis threatened orthodoxy - and have challenged the investigators of heresy and literacy ever since. This collaborative volume, written by a group of established scholars from Britain, continental Europe and the United States, considers the importance of the written word among the main pre-Lutheran popular heresies in a wide range of European countries and explores the extent to which heretics' familiarity with books paralleled or exceeded that of their orthodox contemporaries.
Heresy And Literacy and Medieval Theology and the Natural Body
Medieval Theology and the Natural BodyHeresy And Literacy

  • Title

    Heresy And Literacy

  • Author

    Peter Biller

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    June 1996

  • Weight

    454g

  • Page Count

    340

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.8 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521575768

  • ISBN-10

    0521575761

  • Eden Code

    1098677

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