medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear all,
Dennis raises a fair point. I would please ask you all, as far as possible, to limit yourselves to scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture.
Thank you,
George
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From: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dennis Martin
Sent: 16 June 2004 16:29
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Fewer witches burned in Inquisition, fewer heretics
tortured, it says here
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Quite frankly I find the tone and content here offensive. The Vatican
conference presumably involved scholars working along the same lines as
those who have produced a body of revisionist studies on the various
inquisitions (Peters, Kamen, Tedeschi and others) over the last three
decades. The revisionism was long overdue because of the distorted and
exaggerated view of the inquisitions that had become conventional in the
18th and 19th centuries and is now endemic in popular culture. WIthout
having seen the papers, why mock the conference or its proceedings? If
a conference convoked by one of our professional societies or one of our
major universities had announced the publication of its proceedings with
similar generalizations, would you not at least have reserved judgment
until you had seen the volume? And what does contemporary geopolitics
(and ecclesial-politics) have to do with any of this? The joke works
only if one asumes that everyone on the list shares the same
geopolitical assumptions.
Dennis Martin
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