Sex Dissidence and Damnation

For the authorities in medieval Europe, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. It was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, eventually by torture. Jeffrey Richards examines the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals and uncovers a common motive for their persecution: sexual aberrance. Chapter 1 The Medieval Context; Chapter 2 Sex in the Middle Ages; Chapter 3 Heretics; Chapter 4 Witches; Chapter 5 Jews; Chapter 6 Prostitutes; Chapter 7 Homosexuals; Chapter 8 Lepers;