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The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press; New Ed edition (30 Nov 1991)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0268010943
ISBN-13: 978-0268010942
Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.1 x 1.5 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 820,315 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The heresy of the Free Spirit is often considered to have been the most important continental European heresy of the fourteenth century. Many historians have described its membership as a league of anarchistic deviants who fomented sexual license and subversion of authority. Free Spirits are supposed to have justified nihilism and megalomania and to have been remote precursors of Bakunin and Nietzsche and twentieth-century bohemians and hippies. This volume examines the Free-Spirit movement as it appeared in its own age, and concludes that it was not a tightly-organized sect, but rather a spectrum of belief that emphasized voluntary poverty and quietistic mysticism. Overall, the movement was far more typical of the late-medieval search for God and godliness that is commonly supposed.