Pursuit of the Millennium Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

"'The Pursuit of the Millennium' was first published in 1957 and is rightly referred to as a classic. At a time when the introduction of psychological concepts into history or sociology was regarded with suspicion, Cohn had the courage and originality to compare the beliefs held by millenarian prophets with the delusions of paranoid psychotics....Cohn was the first historian to establish firmly that a paranoid delusional system, which would result in the diagnosis of insanity if displayed in an ordinary individual, could, when promulgated by a prophet, infect a group of disciples.Cohn, Norman is the author of 'Pursuit of the Millennium Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages', published 1970 under ISBN 9780195004564 and ISBN 0195004566.