Description: The essays in this volume offer readers a unique insight into the changing concepts of heresy from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, c.1100 to c.1800. The contributors explore the role of nationalism and linguistic identity in constructions of heresy, its analogies with treason and madness, the role of class and status in the responses to heresy, and provide insights into the roots of the historicization of heresy.
Review Quotes: '... the volume excels in many areas...' Church History 'Scholars of medieval, Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment intellectual and social history should especially benefit from reading this work as it demonstrates an important process of intellectual and social change by means of concrete examples.' Sixteenth Century Journal