The Crypto Reformation with Josh Rosenthal
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The Wars of Religion
The decentralization of power that occurred in the renaissance did lead to a number of conflicts. These are sometimes summarized under the wars of religion. Syvic, what happens when the pendulum swings back and you unwind this? You have these periods of chaos, right? So very tactically, the land at the time, if the church owns a third of it and it's in monasteries, luther comes along, hay, everybody should be out in the world,. And there's nothing more holy about you as the monk, verses, you know, you working in the world, or being the executioner, what have you. The cities dissolve the monasteries. They take
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