Did growing literacy in the medieval period foster popular heresy, or did heresy provide a stimulus to the spread of literacy? Such questions, addressed here, w... » 

Did growing literacy in the medieval period foster popular heresy, or did heresy provide a stimulus to the spread of literacy? Such questions, addressed here, were also posed in the polemic of the time. Heretics, seen as laici illiterati, were also seen as possessors of dangerous books. «