Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages : minority groups in the Middle Ages

Bok av Jeffrey Richards
For the authorities in medieval Europe, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. It was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, eventually by torture. Jeffrey Richards examines the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals and uncovers a common motive for their persecution: sexual aberrance.