Madigan describes the understanding of the relationship of the physical body and the spiritual body to be inversely proportional, meaning that the more aged and physically weak you are, the more spiritual power or closeness with God you attain. This related to the writings Guibert made me think more about how after death, when a… Continue reading →
To combat heretics the church always employed many of the same techniques: An Inquisition, ex-communication, banishment, and now even branding and taking away their rights to almost anything. All were successful to points in their various times and this time the methods worked well as well. The marking of and slandering of all who may… Continue reading →
Benedict was born into a sort of new comings, where the emperor was just laid to rest and the Roman Empire was split into 3 sections, The Byzantine East, The Muslim World, The Byzantine West. He was raised in the Byzantine West, where church sects were able to be self sufficient and keep themselves afloat.… Continue reading →
