Tag Archives: Albigensian Crusade

the “el sabio” of castile

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Dave

Alfonso, the Learned of Castile as he was known. Perhaps the first known Renaissance man in the Middle Ages, he marshaled the talents of Christians, Jews and Moslems in an extraordinary outpouring of scholarship and art… …The most astonishing of … Continue reading →

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mercy mercy them: the H word

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Dave

An account of religious heresy. Hardly. No one can match Gottfried Arnold’s Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics. The Lutheran priest published the two volume tome in 1699 to almost universal disdain from within the Church and their … Continue reading →