Formation of a Persecuting Society (eBook)

R. I. Moore, formerly of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, is the author of The Origins of European Dissent (1977), and The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215, (2000), in the Making of Europe series. He is General Editor of the Blackwell History of the World series and was also founding editor of the Blackwell series New Perspectives on the Past. He has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley and is a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

Preface to the Second Edition.

Preface to the First Edition.

Introduction.

1. Persecution.

Heretics.

Jews.

Lepers.

The Common Enemy.

2. Classification.

3. Purity and Danger.

4. Power and Reason.

5. A Persecuting Society.

Bibliographical Excursus: Debating the Persecuting Society.

Bibliography.

Index

"One of the most influential and controversial books of medieval
history of the last 20 years ... The relevance of its argument
today is uncanny." The Guardian

Praise for the first edition:

"A brilliant account of medieval Europe...it is a pleasure to
read an account that is so obviously of importance for our own
societies, yet is conceived in a full international context."
Times Higher Education Supplement

"A fundamental work of historical sociology, as important in its
way as the works of Georges Duby and Mark Bloch...a courageous and
wide-ranging thesis." M. T. Clanchy, Times Literary
Supplement