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.
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