Hanging with History
Hanging with History
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220. The Civilizing Process; The Knights, Aggression and Torture
We are going to start with trivialities, then get into some serious differences between now and the medieval psyche. Around gross stuff, aggression and killing and finally torture, and torture’s enjoyment. This is absolutely n...
219. The Civilizing Process
It was probably while the brutal siege in Vienna went on, and the little boys and girls of the region were being sold into slavery, after being raped a few times if more modern examples teach us anything. That Erasmus wrote a book l &...
218. Erasmus and the Siege of Vienna
There are two stories here, their opposition is part of a theme. Erasmus, the great Erasmus , Erasmus of Rotterdam was even more a product of the Devotio Moderna than was Luther. Most of his young education was by the Brethre...
217. How to Tear the West Apart
A miner’s son, decided one day, to nail 95 thesis to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg in the year of our lord 1517. It seems unlikely he intended to split his church, the Catholic, universal church, into a bewildering multiplic...
216. 1453, Before Humanism and the Reformation
We explore the roots of Humanism and the Reformation. Taking a long look at the Devotio Moderna, the Brethren of the Common Life. These were key influences on both Erasmus and Martin Luther. But more than that, the Devotio Mod...