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Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530
by Peter Biller
ISBN: 0521419794
ISBN-13: 9780521419796
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Published date: 1994
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Pages: 313
Publisher's Notes
Did growing literacy in the later medieval period foster popular heresy, or did heresy provide a crucial stimulus to the spread of literacy? Such questions were posed in the polemic of the time and have challenged literary and historical research ever since. 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.
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Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530
Peter Biller & Anne Hudson, Editors
Cambridge University Press, 1994 Nice hardcover ~ tight, bright and unmarked. Crisp, clean jacket. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Book Scholars (United States)
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