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R.I. Moore “Some years ago I asked in an examination paper for schoolleavers, ‘Why were heretics persecuted in the thirteenth century?’ The question was very popular and the answer, with great confidence and near unanimity, ‘because there were so many of them.‟ – R.I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950 – 1250. First published Basil Blackwell: Oxford,1987. • Argues against the notion that difference is itself a cause for persecution. • Key point: Europe became a persecuting society, it was not always so. • The persecution (or marginalisation) of particular groups is not a natural, inevitable or universal condition. Rather, it is historically contingent.
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