First edition. 8vo. xvi, 273 pp., black and white photographic frontispiece, 7 photographic plates. Original salmon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (partially offsetting to half title, minor spotting to fore-edge, contents otherwise generally clean; wear to extremities of dust jacket, spine panel slightly faded, a very good copy). London, Secker and Warburg, 1957.
The most influential book of the British historian Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium provides a history of popular religious and social movements in Medieval Europe with special focus on millenarian cult movements.
In 1995, the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) named the book as one of the 100 most influential books since 1945.
