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Originally published in Millennialism: An International Bibliography by Garland Publishing New York, 1992. Reproduced here by permission.

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         417. Lerner, Robert E. The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1972.
        "Claim[s] that radical action (social, political or religious) is always or necessarily founded upon a millenarian tradition." (H. Schwartz, 1976, item 601)

        418. ———. "Medieval Prophecy and Religious Dissent." Past and Present 72, 1976b: 3-24.
        Students of medieval heresy tend to ignore the literature of religious dissent, which often consists of quasi-millennial prophecies foretelling large-scale apocalyptic reforms in the church, frequently in stridently anti-clerical terms, although not foreseeing an end of the world or any total change. [This may be too literal. To a great extent the medieval church was the world; cf. Turberville, 1964: item 689.] These often involved visions of a Last World Emperor and an Antichrist figure.

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