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London: Routledge, 1994. 350 g; XII, 180 pages, includes further reading list, and index. 34 black-and-white illustrations in two sections. Colour illustrated paperback binding, slightly rubbed on the outer edges. For the authorities in mediaeval Europe, both secular and ecclesiastical, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. To allow a single heretic to escape just punishment would, it was believed, resulting the decay and dissolution of the whole structure of society. So dissent was to be extirpated -- initially by reason and argument, then with increasing savagery: by torture and imprisonment, fire and the sword. In examining the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals, Jeffrey Richards has uncovered a common motive for their persecution: supposed sexual aberrance." -- a rear panel blurb. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various Contemporary. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Middle Ages -- Sociology.