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Sex Dissidence & Damnation
Paperback Edition: 1
For the authorities in medieval Europe, both secular and ecclesiastical, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. To allow a single heretic to escape just punishment would, it was believed, result in the decay and dissolution of the whole structure of society.
So dissent was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, but before long with increasing savagery: by torture and imprisonment, fire and the sword. In examining the persecuted lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals, Jeffrey Richards has uncovered a common motive for their sufferings: sexual aberrance.
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Pages : 212
Publisher : Routledge
Publication date : 1994-11-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the UK, Humanities, Social Sciences, History, Sociology, Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies