Heresy and Literacy, 1000–1530
, by Edited by Peter Biller , Anne HudsonNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780521575768 | 0521575761
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/28/1996
Did growing literacy in the later medieval period foster popular heresy, or did heresy provide a crucial stimulus to the spread of literacy? This collective volume, by established scholars from Britain, continental Europe and the United States, considers the importance of the written word in pre-Lutheran heresies, and explores the extent to which heretics' familiarity with books paralleled or exceeded that of their orthodox contemporaries.