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.
Über den Autor Robert E. Lerner
Robert E. Lerner, geboren 1940, ist emeritierter Professor für Geschichte an der Northwestern University. Er ist u.a. "Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America". Von 1992 bis 1993 war er Stipendiat am Historischen Kolleg in München. 1996 wurde er mit dem Max-Planck-Humboldt-Forschungspreis geehrt.