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

by 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 time to make Europe become, as it has remained, a persecuting society.
  • ISBN10 0631171452
  • ISBN13 9780631171454
  • Publish Date 19 December 2000 (first published 23 July 1987)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 August 2008
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Imprint Blackwell Publishers
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 176
  • Language English