The formation of a persecuting society: authority and deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250.

Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

2nd edition

59020

Persecution -- Europe -- History.

Europe -- Social conditions.

1. Persecution

2. Classification

3. Purity and danger

4. Power and reason

5. A persecuting society.

The tenth to the thirteenth centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the inquisition, the expropriation and mass murder of Jews, and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy and curtail their civil rights. In this book, R. I. 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781405129640

xii, 222 p.