Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000–1200

“A book that should be read by all those interested in heresy as well as medieval theology.” —Church History

“Fichtenau has undertaken to write an extended essay on nonconformity in the twelfth century, and he has found it located in two primary notional regions: in popular heresy and in the arrogant rationality of the schools. . . [The book’s] parts . . . are formidable, and any scholar will find stimulation in an essay written in a style both informative and provocative. . . . The result is an analysis of the twelfth century as fruitful and interesting as any of the much-touted medievalist products of the French school so much more readily translated into English than German works these days.” —Steven Rowan, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies