Herbert Grundmann (1902-1970): Essays on Heresy, Inquisition, and Literacy

First English translation of seminal essays on heresy and other aspects of medieval religious history.

In the field of medieval religious history, few scholars have matched the originality of the German academic Herbert Grundmann (1902-1970). Trained at the University of Leipzig and president of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica from 1959 until his death, Grundmann published a series of brilliant books and articles that fundamentally reshaped how historians of culture and religion conceptual...