Blasfemi (hädelse), heresi (kätteri), apostasi (avfall)

Hilaire P. R. Belloc (1870-1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the …

In 1883 the editor of a penny newspaper stood trial three times for the "obsolete" crime of blasphemy. The editor was G.W. Foote, the paper was the "Freethinker", and the trial was …

Witchcraft haunts the Western imagination to this day, from Central Europe to Britain to North America. This book explores the development of witchcraft and of the belief in it …

‘Heresy is a brilliant book’ - The Times‘Enthralling . . . an absolute pleasure to read’ - The Sunday Telegraph‘In the beginning was the Word,’ says the Gospel of John. This …

Aleister Crowley's "The Book of Lies".Created from high resolution scans of a 1913 first edition copy, this printing faithfully recreates the original printing as closely as …

In this groundbreaking book, popular apologist Melissa Dougherty helps us understand how our society got to be so toxically subjective, why endless positivity is inherently …

The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and …

The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of …

Heresy, Crusade, and Inquisition in Southern France 1100-1250 examines the rise of heresy in the Languedoc region, the Albigensian Crusade, and the early years of the Inquisition, …

This is the first comprehensive account in English of the most feared and the most mysterious of medieval heretics.