Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages

<p><i>The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages</i> 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.</p>