The Pursuit of the Millennium

Flaptekst

‘With impeccable scholarship and exhaustive bibliographies and index, Professor Cohn has explored these subterranean popular revolts which so often sent tremors through the massive structure of medieval society… He is a new kind of historian, thinking objectively in terms of mass psychology and social structure…. Professor Cohn has written a haunting and significant book.’ - Times Literary Supplement

‘There are few feelings to compare with the sensation of reading a work of the first water: the first-rate differs from even the highest second-rate with an absolute difference… Mr Cohn’s combination of careful factual investigation and sociological and psychological hypotheses of great plausibility and explanatory force seems to me to be of outstanding value… sociological history of the best kind… It is a piece of great originality and power… It deserves study and emulation.’ - Sir Isaiah Berlin

‘Full of rich, fascinating, interesting scholarship ... What a field he covers!’ - H. R. Trevor-Roper

‘Great learning and an admirably lively style… Professor Cohn’s work throws a flood of light into unexplored corners, and opens up many new problems… A most stimulating book.’ - Christopher Hill