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- Title
The Birth of Popular Heresy: A Millennial Phenomenon?
- Authors
Moore, R. I.; Moore, R.I.
- Abstract
Argues that reports of perceived heresy by literate elites support allegations of wide-spread popular belief in the imminent end of the world. Background of historical debates about the nature of popular movements in year 1000; Review of millennial reports of heresy in the light of changing historiographical trends and of new work on the heresies themselves; Analysis of the argument raised in the book `Pursuit of the Millennium,' by Norman Cohn.
- Subjects
HERESY; MILLENNIUM (Eschatology); END of the world; PURSUIT of the Millennium, The (Book)
- Publication
Journal of Religious History, 2000, Vol 24, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
0022-4227
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9809.00098