The Pursuit of the Millennium

by Norman Cohn

John Gray says: I first read Norman Cohn back in the sixties. It stayed with me and had a profound effect on me, and emerged in my own work

Ian McEwan says: This is an historical account of the millenarian sects that swept across Europe from the 11th to 15th centuries: sects that were driven by certainties of the world coming to an end. Clearly, it has relevance for our times.