Episode 8: The hounds of God - medieval heretics and inquisitors
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
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Heresy and Orthodoxy - Two Sides of the Same Coin
In the eleventh century, a number of ambitious popes instituted the so called papal revolution. Many understood christianity's central message as a commitment to an apo lic life of poverty. And soon preachers imitating the apostles started wandering the roads of europe with messages that contradicted central tenets of the church. Nowhere would the roots of heresy take a firmer hold than the lang dog region in southern france,. where the so called cathar heresy had spread to some modern scholars argue that cathorism is a problematic and pajorative term. But i'll keep using the term cathar, whether a caricature or not. Cathaa priests had the power to perform a
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