Middle Ages 11: The Pulsating Body -- The Medieval World View
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The Social Tree of the Church
In the mediaeval view of the world, the king is right there in the tree, right? Everybody is part of it, and everyone has their place according to ther their role. What unified the tree or the body in practice was not simply the exercise of power or laws, but rituals. And hence, they are actually physically a bound together into one fleshrit. A new festival was created that came to be observed all around western christendom called a corpus christi. People would organize themselves into little companies rights o,. maybe each clan or family, each ild, each ward might put together a little a company of people. So carrying the piece of bread that had been consecrated
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