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The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages
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Publication Date: 30 September 1991
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ISBN: 9780268010942
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Pages: 274
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Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press

The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages has been widely recognized as the standard work on the subject in any language. Robert E. Lerner examines this fourteenth-century European heresy as it appeared in its own age. He concludes that the Free-Spirit movement was not a tightly organized sect of anarchistic deviants, but rather a spectrum of belief that emphasized voluntary poverty and quietist mysticism.
". . . this is a good book, witty, lucid, and convincing." —History
Robert E. Lerner is the Emeritus Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.