The Formation Of A Persecuting Society: Power And Deviance In Western Europe, 950-1250

by R. I. Moore (formerly University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

• ISBN13: 9780631171454
• ISBN10: 0631171452
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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 time to make Europe become, as it has remained, a persecuting society.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(5)
Persecution	6	(60)
Heretics	11	(16)
Jews	27	(18)
Lepers	45	(15)
The Common Enemy	60	(6)
Classification	66	(34)
Purity and Danger	100	(24)
Power and Reason	124	(30)
Bibliography	154	(5)
Index	159