Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages, The

Robert E Lerner author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Notre Dame Press

Published:30th Sep '17

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The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages has been widely recognized as the standard work on the subject in any language. Robert E. Lerner examines this fourteenth-century European heresy as it appeared in its own age. He concludes that the Free-Spirit movement was not a tightly organized sect of anarchistic deviants, but rather a spectrum of belief that emphasized voluntary poverty and quietist mysticism.

"The clarity, honesty, and directness of the author's style is admirable. From the book emerges the most enlightening and credible picture we as yet have of the 'free spirits' of the late Middle Ages." —Review for Religious


"This is a most important book, both for the completeness of its survey of the available primary sources and for the innovative and persuasive interpretations Robert Lerner brings to his work." —Speculum


". . . this is a good book, witty, lucid, and convincing." —History

ISBN: 9780268160807

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: unknown

274 pages