medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
George,
I'm unsure how conscious the motivation would be, but I formed that
hypothesis reading Wolf's book on the martyrs.
Tom Izbicki
George R. Hoelzeman wrote:
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> Really?
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> That's a very interesting thesis. Do you think they were actually conscious of that idea, or would it have been more a kind of psychological subtext to their
> action?
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> I definitely see your point since some of the same behaviour can be identified even in contemporary cultures.
>
> George
>
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:38:51 -0500, Tom Izbicki wrote:
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>> I believe the martyrs were trying to solidify the porous boundary
>> between Christian and Muslim by creating an incident. That made things
>> difficult for a time.
>> Tom Izbicki
>>
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