Article: Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000-1150).(Book Review)

ORDER AND EXCLUSION: CLUNY AND CHRISTENDOM FACE HERESY, JUDAISM, AND ISLAM (1000-1150). By Dominique Iogna-Prat. Translated from the French by Graham R. Edwards. Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past. Ithaca. N.Y.: Cornell University, 2002. Pp. xv + 407. $59.95.

Iogna-Prat studies the polemical works of Peter the Venerable, twelfth-century abbot of Cluny, seeing his Contra Petrobrusianos, Adversus Iudeos, and Contra sectam Sarracenorum as pivotal markers in the growth of religious intolerance in the West. I.-P. relies explicitly on R. I. Moore's argument that the growth of ecclesiastical authority following the Gregorian reform increased the ...

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