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Episode 8: The hounds of God - medieval heretics and inquisitors

This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama

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The Reformation and the Reformation of the Church

Marguerite Poret was found guilty of relapsing into heresy and burned at the stake. In england no papal tribunals were set up, but courts still pursued heretics. Why did mediaeval europe develop into a persecuting society? That's a question specialists have long debated. R i moore famously argued that the persecuting society was an attempt by prominent members of religious and secular institutions to consolidate their own powerby defining out groups.

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