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Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature (review)

In Truth and the Heretic, Karen Sullivan sheds much light on the process of constructing medieval heresy as a social threat.On the basis of a wide selection of historical records and literary texts, she persuasively argues that the heterodox believer was perceived as destabilizing the status of truth,certainty, authority, law, testimony, and evidence in Christian society. She juxtaposes competitive portrayals of heresy in didactic and literary writings to suggest that literature could express the truths about religious and social dissidence that were inaccessible elsewhere.