An intellectual portrait of Europe in the High Middle Ages by one of the great medievalists of this century.The struggle over fundamental issues erupted with gr

The struggle over fundamental issues erupted with great fury in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In this book preeminent medievalist Heinrich Fichtenau turns

More than seventy documents, ranging in date from the early eleventh century to the early fourteenth century and representing both orthodox and heretical viewpo

The Cathars are one of the most famous heretical movements of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. They infiltrated the highest ranks of society and

Collective volume exploring connections between literacy and heresy in late medieval Europe.