El arte de disentir : Intelectuales y herejes en la Edad Media

Were the so-called medieval heretics the origins of today's dissidents? For centuries, a series of fascinating figures, situated on the margins of the official religion, dared to question the established order and demand profound reforms in the face of what they considered betrayals of the original message of the faith. Their intellectual rebellion, punished then as heresy, resonates today as the first echo of freedom of thought. In this book, Emilio Mitre, one of Spain's most prestigious medievalists, explores whether the Middle Ages was truly a heretical era or, rather, the stage where the first forms of intellectual dissent germinated. Through its pages, we discover how many of the critical and disruptive voices of the Middle Ages anticipated the great transformative movements that would mark the history of the West. Some of those figures, persecuted in their time, are now recognized as pioneers of free thought. Thus, the book invites us to reflect on the continuity between medieval heresies and contemporary dissent, and to ask ourselves to what extent yesterday's rebels paved the way for today's nonconformists.