Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages
by By Richards, Jeffrey
Category: History , General

Richards portrays medieval Europe as lacking in tolerance for any form of dissent or deviant behavior. In an era that awaited the imminent arrival of the Second Coming, the Church held populations to rigid standards of conduct, and explained every threat to its authority in terms of sexual perversion. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.