Heresy in the Middle Ages

Auteur

Andrea Janelle Dickens is an assistant teaching professor at Arizona State University. Her work, including her previous book, The Female Mystic: Great Women Thinkers of the Middle Ages, focuses on groups outside mainstream medieval traditions.

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Medieval Christianity evolved economic, intellectual, and theological structures to consolidate authority and test orthodoxy. This book investigates the relationships between the medieval church and the growing number of heretical groups, highlighting where they were motivated by overlapping concerns such as a zeal to live the apostolic life.