Charlie's recommendations for
Books on general history of heretics
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Three Picks: Williams, George H.
The Radical Reformation (Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1992; orig. pub. 1962)
Cohn, Norman
The Pursuit of the Millennium (Oxford Univ. Press, 1989; orig. pub. 1957)
Friedrich, Otto
The End of the World: A history (Fromm Int'l Publishing Corp., 1986)
More
good
ones:
George, Leonard
Crimes of Perception: An encyclopedia of heresies & heretics (Paragon House, 1995)
Hill, Christopher
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical ideas during the English Revolution (Viking Penguin, 1991)
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. Lambert, Malcolm
Medieval Heresy: Popular movements from the Gregorian reform to the Reformation (Blackwell Publishers, 1992)
McGinn, Bernard
Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages (Columbia University Press, 1998; originally published 1979)
Lerner, Robert
The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages (University of Notre Dame Press, 1991; originally published 1972)
. Moore, R. I.
The Birth of Popular Heresy (University of Toronto Press, 1995; originally published 1975)
Moore, R. I.
The Origins of European Dissent (University of Toronto Press, 1994; originally published 1977)
Richards, Jeffrey
Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority groups in the Middle Ages (Routledge, 1995)

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