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The infamous Spiegel Online of Germany, and its publishing branch, has come up with this outrageous article on the Inquisition in the southern French village of Montaillou.
It is unfortunately written in German, but you can find a Google translation here. The grammar is not exactly perfect, but I think you get the gist. translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fspiegelgeschichte%2Fmittelalter-die-inquisition-verfolgte-andersglaeubige-als-ketzer-a-913942.html
The image gallery shows depictions of monks operating instruments of torture, claiming that was very common. All in all, the article appears to be very benevolent and favourable to the heretics, not calling them that (only when speaking from the Church’s view) but rather “people of other beliefs”.
I wonder what you have to say about the article, whether the things described are actually true (since they claim the Inquisition’s documents show this) or cleverly distorted, as would be no surprise for that magazine.
To be honest: Whenever this paper writes something about the Church, I assume the Church’s general innocence, or at least that she is not nearly as guilty of something as they say.
It is unfortunately written in German, but you can find a Google translation here. The grammar is not exactly perfect, but I think you get the gist. translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fspiegelgeschichte%2Fmittelalter-die-inquisition-verfolgte-andersglaeubige-als-ketzer-a-913942.html
The image gallery shows depictions of monks operating instruments of torture, claiming that was very common. All in all, the article appears to be very benevolent and favourable to the heretics, not calling them that (only when speaking from the Church’s view) but rather “people of other beliefs”.
I wonder what you have to say about the article, whether the things described are actually true (since they claim the Inquisition’s documents show this) or cleverly distorted, as would be no surprise for that magazine.
To be honest: Whenever this paper writes something about the Church, I assume the Church’s general innocence, or at least that she is not nearly as guilty of something as they say.