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Link to Article on Indulgences

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Since I mentioned this in class I thought I’d post it. My author page: http://lifeasahuman.com/author/marthasherwood/ http://lifeasahuman.com/2011/current-affairs/social-issues/sale-of-indulgences-usa-2011/  “Martha Sherwood draws a parallel between municipalities using fines as a source of revenue and the sale of Papal indulgences in 16th Century Europe”. http://lifeasahuman.com/2013/religion/egotheism/  It takes genuine, altruistic spirituality to avoid making one charismatic leader’s self-serving image of… Continue reading →

Jan Hus background

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A few thoughts – I’m too burnt out from Tuesday to come up with anything coherent. Mengel, David “A Plague on Bohemia? Mapping the Black Death.” Past and Present 211 (2011): 3-34. The often-cited “fact” that Bohemia and southern Poland escaped the mid-14th century bubonic plague epidemic rests on shaky evidence, but total mortality was… Continue reading →

The Construction of Heresy

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The twelfth and thirteenth centuries saw the development both of active, widespread movements that challenged the official theology and hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, and the development of an apparatus, the Inquisition, to systematically identify and extirpate heretical communities. The earliest sect to pose such a challenge was that variously called the Cathars, Albigensians,… Continue reading →