Nancy,
>I assume that the book you have in mind is *The Formation of a Persecuting
>Society,* not a *Repressing* society.
I'm sorry for the bad translation, that's because my book is in spanish and
my english is not so good.
>Near the beginning of the book, Moore recounts his experience of teaching
>about heresy at university, and of asking students why >they thought
>heretics were persecuted so harshly. He then states >that the reply he most
>often received from students was,"because >there were so many of them." But
>Moore does not himself adopt this >position or argue for it: precisely the
>opposite. In fact, he >presents this idea as somewhat naive and
>ill-informed, and uses it >as a springboard to begin exploring his own,
>quite different >perspective through counter-argument.
I've made the same mistake his students made!
I thought that one of the reasons that lead to the persecution was that
there were so many heretics, but not the only reason. I've read the book
more atentively, and I think I get it now.
Thank you a lot,
Carolina.
>--Nancy Caciola
> History, UC-San Diego
>
>
>At 11:54 AM 10/26/99 PDT, you wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I've wrote recently a paper about definitions of medieval heresy in some
> >contemporany authors to present in a College Congress. One of the authors
> >I've used is Robert Moore, more especificaly his book "Repressing
>Society".
> >He says that the heretics were persecuted beacuse the were many of them,
>but
> >my tutor didn't agree with me.
> >Could someone help on this?
> >Thank you very much,
> >Carolina Fortes.
> >
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