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There are signs of a growing interest in chapbooks of all sorts and we may hope for some important work to be done in the field . Because it remained illegal to publish the material in The merry muses until 1964 in the United States and 1965 in Great Britain , publishers resorted to various subterfuges in producing editions . After I had described the general conditions of the economic and political development of Northern and Middle Italy , and those of the particular environment ( or of the social classes ) in which the Apostolic sect arose and developed , I had to explain , at a certain point , the doctrine by which Dolcino held together the ranks of his followers , who were intrepid and tenacious fighters to the last and worked like heroes , martyrs , and harbingers of a new order of human life . However , soil types in the new climactic zones may not always be suitable for intensive agriculture as currently practiced in the main producer countries ( STOA 1998 ) . In view of this independent barbarian life , the definitions of the learned and the decisions of the councils remained suspended in the air , became intangible conceptions for the multitude , and assumed the garb of utopian doctrines . For all these and other reasons , there is hung in the air , in the fantastic imagination of many , the picture of an ultra-perfect Christianity , which shall be different , or is absolutely different , from the one which vulgar history knows and depicts , a Christianity that stoned Stephen , that instituted the Holy Inquisition , which dispatched so many multitudes of infidels to the other world ; from the barefooted fisherman Peter , who played the part of a Sancho Panza by his cowardly denials , to Pope Pius , who consoled himself for the loss of his temporal power by assuming infallibility ; from the spontaneous agape of the poor visited by the comforter to the Jesuits who arm squadrons and contract commercial loans , like daring harbingers of the colonial policy of the bourgeois world ; from the Rabbi of Nazareth , who says that his kingdom is not of this world , to the bishops and other prelates who occupy in his name from one fifth to one third of the land , according to various countries , and who rule as its sovereigns and proprietors , enjoying even the jus primae noctus .