
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...

This study examines the persecuted lives of heretics, witches, Jews, prostitutes and homosexuals in medieval Europe, and links their common sufferings to sexual aberrance created by the Church, which sought to regulate even the most intimate details of human life.
