Honestly when you look at the medieval peasant religious movements in the 13th and 14th centuries the presence of visionary women is really striking, of which Joan of Arc is only the most obvious. Many of the most important mystic writers were women. Probably were also the best. So I expect many of them would have known far more about Christianity that this fuckhead.
Don’t forget that the catholic propaganda back then worked exactly like the current imperialist one does. Most of the people killed for heresy were not for speaking nonorthodox but for the political and economical resistance to the church.
Most succint take on this had XVI century polish bishop of Kraków, Andrzej Zebrzydowski, while commenting mass conversions of polish nobility to calvinism: “Let them believe even in the goat, provided they pay tithes”. And indeed they only rebelled over century later after decades of counterreformation.
It didn’t even have to be to the Church, as Joan of Arc illustrates. And of course what happened to Jan Hus was fucked, he had some odd ideas but none were actively heretical, and betraying a guest is the ur-example of how you get cursed by the gods (admittedly the Reformation and Wars of Religion was one hell of a curse)
Honestly when you look at the medieval peasant religious movements in the 13th and 14th centuries the presence of visionary women is really striking, of which Joan of Arc is only the most obvious. Many of the most important mystic writers were women. Probably were also the best. So I expect many of them would have known far more about Christianity that this fuckhead.
This guy would have been burned at the stake so damned fast if he was asked half the trick questions Joan was asked.
Don’t forget that the catholic propaganda back then worked exactly like the current imperialist one does. Most of the people killed for heresy were not for speaking nonorthodox but for the political and economical resistance to the church.
Most succint take on this had XVI century polish bishop of Kraków, Andrzej Zebrzydowski, while commenting mass conversions of polish nobility to calvinism: “Let them believe even in the goat, provided they pay tithes”. And indeed they only rebelled over century later after decades of counterreformation.
It didn’t even have to be to the Church, as Joan of Arc illustrates. And of course what happened to Jan Hus was fucked, he had some odd ideas but none were actively heretical, and betraying a guest is the ur-example of how you get cursed by the gods (admittedly the Reformation and Wars of Religion was one hell of a curse)