> Is the public aspect of the punishment of heretics then a part of a
> larger tradition of the humiliation of sinners still practiced into the
> late medieval period? For that matter, is the sort of public punishment
> one sees mentioned in connection with colonial America (stocks etc.) a
> further continuation?
>
> tom izbicki
This query makes me wonder if we've ever truly left this public treatment
of heretics behind us. There are places where homes built from public
funds for the poor are quite deliberately bleak and ugly; are the poor
treated as heretics by some (rich) capitalists?
George Ferzoco
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